Douglas W. Canfield

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About Dr. Canfield

Canfield is the Coordinator of the Language Resource Center. His background is in French lower- and upper-division instruction, including hybrid courses with significant online modules. His research has explored music and videoclips as catalysts for the Chomskyan “Language Acquisition Device”, the creation of discourse and gaming communities for language instruction and research, and the leveraging of open-source and low-affect technologies in language resource centers. He is a member of the International Assocation for Language Learning Technology (IALLT), the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Among his other scholarly works, he was awarded a highly competitive Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) where he conducted a discursive investigation of communities of language practice in virtual worlds.

Supervising a fine team of student assistants, his goals include fostering the use of technology for instruction, communication, collaboration, and recreation.

Publications

• Canfield, D. “The Discursive Construction of Language Teaching and Learning in Multiuser Virtual Environments. ” Ph.D. diss., University of Tennessee, 2016.
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• Sweeney, P., Palomeque, C., Speck, C., Canfield, D., Guerrero, S. & Mackichan, P. (2011). “Task Design for Language Learning in an Embodied Environment.” In Vincenti, G. & Braman, J.(eds.). Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
• Dubreil, S., Young, D., & Canfield, D. (2011). “The ‘Plinko’ principle and language programs: Designing nonlinear hybrid learning environments and desiderata for implementation.” In S. Huffman & V. Hegelheimer (Eds.), The role of CALL in hybrid and online language courses. Ames, IA: Iowa State University.
• Canfield, D. (2009). “The Best Class You’ve Never Been To: (Second) Life (Role) Play.” In Stone, L. & Wilson-Duffy, C. (eds.). Task-Based III: Expanding the Range of Tasks with Online Resources. Madison, WI: International Association for Language Learning Technology, pp. 227-235.

Phone: 865-974-6494

Email: dcanfie1@utk.edu

Personal Website: web.utk.edu/~dcanfie1

Education

• Ph.D., Instructional Technology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (May 2016). Dissertation: “The Discursive Construction of Language Teaching and Learning in Multiuser Virtual Environments” Chairs: Trena Paulus & Sébastien Dubreil.
• M.A. in Medieval French Literature, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1992.