Nicolas Guichon

Nicolas Guichon is a lecturer at Lyon 2 University and a member of the ICAR (Interaction, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations) research team. His research focuses on teacher education, computer-assisted language learning and materials design. He has created Virtual Cabinet, an online platform destined to help learners to develop their listening and writing skills. This project now exists in 5 languages (English, Spanish, Italian, German and French) and was awarded the European label for language learning in January 2008.Nicolas Guichon is part of an international project entitled le français en (première) ligne which promotes online language learning for students from different countries.As a researcher, he participated in a research project (Rethinking Language Teaching in the Digital Age : French and American Perspectives on Technology and Pedagogy) with the university of Berkeley. He has recently given presentations in international conferences in Montreal (May 2007) on online teaching and at the colloquiun Electronic literacy and educational practices: A global perspective at the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Washington (April 2008). In 2006, he published a book entitled Langues et TICE, méthodologie de conception multimedia about multimedia design for language education.