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Brian McCarthy

Position
University Fellow, French Studies, Modern Languages Program

Academic Qualifications
BA (Sydney), M ès L (Besançon), DipEd (Mitchell), PhD (Sydney)
NAATI-accredited Advanced Translator (French-English), Translator (English-French)

Awards
Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (1994)
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2001)

Research Interests
Foreign language teaching methodology, computer assisted language learning, software development, phonetics and translation.

Some Publications

Monographs

  • McCarthy, B.N. Au delà des mots, Cambridge University Press, 1989

  • McCarthy, B.N. Elements of French, Inoxy Publications, Wollongong, 2003

  • McCarthy, B.N. & Ianziti, J.R. Et à votre avis…? , Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1991

  • McCarthy, B.N. & R. Mitchell. Get the message. Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, 1991

  • McCarthy, B.N., En Tête-à-tête: cued speaking activities for French beginners, Book + CD Kit, Inoxy Publications, Wollongong, 2004

Refereed Journal Articles

  • McCarthy, B.N. and Konopczynski, G. "Les effets de la lecture à haute voix sur l'intonation", International Review of Applied Linguistics, XV/3, 1977, 230-238

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Audio-visual language teaching at university level" in Language Learning in Australian Society, eds D. E. Ingram and T. J. Quinn, 1976,195-200

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Flexibility in audio-visual foreign language programmes - the experiment with university beginners in French", Babel, Vol 16/3, 1980, 20-30

  • McCarthy, B.N. "La notion d'intonation neutre et l'enseignement des langues étrangères, Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, Vol 54, 1980, 133-155

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Conflicts between structure drills and intonation in foreign language methods", Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol 4/2, 1981, 1-15

  • McCarthy, B.N. "The language of a conversation class", Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol 6/2, 1983, 36-52

  • McCarthy, B.N. & Ianziti, J. R. "Developing comprehension and expression in advanced students of French", Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol 10/1, 1987, 118-142

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Pitch Features of Classroom French Intonation", Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Vol 11/1, 1988, 66-82

  • McCarthy, B.N. "L'accentuation en classe de français langue étrangère", Revue de Phonétique Appliquée, N°98, 1991 pp 33-54

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Taking Off With CALL", ReCall - Journal of the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, Hull, England , No.7, November 1992, pp6-9

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Developing CALL Materials for the Foreign Language Classroom: Ideals and Practicalities", ON-CALL - The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, 7/2, January 1993, pp2-9, or online at
    http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall/72mcar.htm

  • McCarthy, B.N. "The Computer as an Aid to Phonetic Correction" Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, Series S/9, 1992, pp120-139

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Designing Materials for Computer Assisted Language Learning: Some Preliminary Considerations", BABEL - Journal of the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers' Associations, vol 29/3, 1994,24-27, 36

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Choice and Constraint in Software Design", ON-CALL - The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, Vol 8/2, 1994, pp5-12. or online at http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall/mccarthy82.html

  • McCarthy, B.N. "CALL Software Design: Moving from the Notional to the Concrete." ReCall - Journal of the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, England, in association with EUROCALL , Vol 6/1, 1994, 19-26

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Language System, Computer Constraint, and Pedagogy: Three-Cornered Contest or Three-Part Harmony?", ON-CALL - The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, Vol 8/3, 1994, 11-20, or online at http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall/mccarthy83.html

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Discerning the Teacher behind the Software", ReCall - Journal of the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, England, in association with EUROCALL, vol 6/2, 1994, 23-28; reproduced in the Association of Independent Schools of NSW Professional Development Newsletter, May 1995

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Grammar Drills: What CALL can and cannot do", ON-CALL - The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, vol 9/2, 1995, 30-41, or online at http://cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall/mccarthy92a.html; also published in the Proceedings of Eurocall 94, Pädagogische Hochschule, Karlsruhe, Germany 1996, 239-258; and by ERIC Document Reproduction Service, 1994, ED 382 022 FL 022 925, 25p

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Realism and Reality in CALL Software", ReCall - Journal of the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, England, in association with EUROCALL, vol 7/2, 1995, 36-46

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Fully Integrated CALL: Mission Accomplished",ON-CALL - The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, Vol 10/2, 1996, 15-28, or online at http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall/mccarthy102.html; also published in ReCall - Journal of the CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, England, in association with EUROCALL, vol 8/2, 1996, 17-34

  • McCarthy, B.N. "CALL Design: A grammar lesson for the student and a lesson in applied linguistics for the designer", ON-CALL - The Australian Journal of Computers and Language Education, Vol 12/2, 1998, 26-37, or online at http://www.cltr.uq.edu.au/oncall/mccarthy122.html

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Harnessing CyberFrench for Specific Purposes", CALL-EJ Online (ISSN 1442-438X), Vol. 1, No. 3 January 2000
    http://www.tell.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/callejonline/journal/1-3/mccarthy.html, see also condensed version of article in Proceedings of the 1998 WorldCALL Conference, University of Melbourne, 141-142

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Integration: the sine qua non of CALL" CALL-EJ Online, Vol. 1, No. 2 September 1999 (ISSN 1442-438X) http://www.tell.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/callejonline/journal/1-2/mccarthy.html

The article "Integration: the sine qua non of CALL" was chosen to underpin Module 2.1 "CALL methodology: integrating CALL into study programmes" of the ICT4LT project funded under the SOCRATES Programme of the Commission of the European Communities. The ICT4LT project is a Web-based training course in Information and Communications Technology for Language Teachers
(http://www.ict4lt.org/en/en_home.htm)

Non-refereed Journal Articles

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Needs-Driven French Materials Development: Practicalities and Theories", Carnet Austral, Bulletin of the Australian Society for French Studies, N°11, October 1999, 9-18

  • McCarthy, B.N. "University Beginner French après la belle époque", Carnet Austral, Bulletin of the Australian Society for French Studies, N°13, September 2000, 3-9

  • McCarthy, B.N. "The Morphing of a University French Program", Carnet Austral, Bulletin of the Australian Society for French Studies, N°17, September 2002, 4-19

Chapters of Books

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Faltering Speech: Towards an understanding of pause in spoken classroom French" in Essays in Honour of K. V. Sinclair, edited by Bruce Merry, Capricornia 9, Department of Modern Languages, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, 1991, pp236-253

  • McCarthy, B.N. "La phonétique d'antan" in Variété: Perspectives in French Literature, Society and Culture (Studies in honour of Kenneth Raymond Dutton), Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1999, 93-102

  • McCarthy, B.N. "Carpe Tecnologia" in Essays in Language, Translation and the Digital Learning Technologies, eds George Talbot and Pamela Williams, Market Harborough: Troubador, 2002, 37-44

Interactive Learning Web Sites

  • McCarthy, B.N. Translator Choice: French (University of Wollongong), 2004

  • McCarthy, B.N and Stace R.J. On-line French Grammar, 2005
    This University of Wollongong WebCT site contains an extensive set of activities (a total of approx. 60,000 quiz items) for the review and maintenance of basic French Grammar in the following modules: Adjectives, Adverbs, Articles, Comparison, Future Tense, Infinitives and Participles, Infinitive Government, Passé Composé, Passé Composé/Imparfait, Present Subjunctive, Present Tense Verbs, Pronoun Objects, Relative Pronouns, Reported Speech, Translation Traps, Verb Categories, Verb Kit, Verb Tense Recognition

Computer Software

  • McCarthy, B.N.
    Transit-TIGER: Advanced (Technical) Translation (French to English) (text, translations, notes and vocabulary), TELL Consortium, CTI Centre for Modern Languages, University of Hull, England (1995)

  • McCarthy, B.N. and Stace, R., Wollongong, Visa Software

    French Clockworks (1991)
    French Spelling (1991)
    French, English, German, Spanish, Indonesian, Japanese: Numbers (1991-1993)
    French, German, Italian, Spanish: Grid Games (1991)
    French, German, Spanish: Basic Expressions (1991)
    Bons Mots (1992)
    French ID Kit (1992)
    French VocaBuilder (1992)
    Dis bien bonjour! (1993)
    English Proverbs (1993)
    French Date (1993)
    Pot-Pourri Quiz (1993)
    French Proverbs (1994)
    French Shopping (1994)
    Clozemaker (1995)
    Read Your Way Around France (1997)

  • McCarthy, B.N., Stace, R., Cincotta, V., Strong-Cincotta, M., Wollongong, Visa Software

Italian Basic Expressions (1991)
Italian Numbers (1991)
Italian Adjectives (1992)
Italian Present Tense Verbs (1992)
Italian Articles (1992)
Italian Passato Prossimo (1993)
  • McCarthy, B.N., Stace, R., Strong-Cincotta, M., Wollongong, Visa Software
    Italian Imperfetto (1996)

  • McCarthy, B. N., Atkins, R. and Wells, M., Wollongong, Visa Software
    Japanese Basic Expressions (1993)

  • McCarthy, B. N. and Hewer, P., Wollongong, Visa Software
    French Roadsigns (1993)

  • McCarthy, B. N., Stace, R. and Phelan, D., Wollongong, Visa Software
    French Weather Station (1993)

  • McCarthy, B. N., Stace, R. and Batzella, G, Wollongong, Visa Software
    Italian Proverbs (1995)

E-mail: brianm@uow.edu.au
Phone: (02) 4221 3387

 
   

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