Vance Stevens holds an MA in ESL from the University of Hawaii. He has conducted research, co-edited books, and published widely in the field of CALL (computer-assisted language learning). He was founding member and first officially appointed chair of the CALL Interest Section in TESOL and has served on the advisory boards of the TESOL and CALICO Journals. He taught ESL for 20 years, mostly in the Middle East, before becoming Director of ESL Courseware Design at Courseware Publishing International in California where he worked for two years with Authorware and speech recognition, among other computer-based development tools. Since then he has been consultant and coordinator for Computer-Assisted Language Learning at the Military Language Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE. An inveterate teacher, Vance has been teaching online for the past several years. His online ESL course Writing for Webheads now involves ESL students and colleagues worldwide and has resulted in several recent face-to-face and online conference appearances focusing on the free online and multimedia synchronous communications tools that make the course possible.

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Vance Stevens became a consultant and Coordinator for Computer-Assisted Language Learning at the Military Language Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in 1997 after serving two years as Director of ESL Courseware Design at Courseware Publishing International in California, working with Authorware and speech recognition, among other CALL development tools. Having taught ESL for 20 years, he now teaches online, engaging ESL students and colleagues worldwide in weekly chats using free online multimedia synchronous communications tools. Service to professional organizations includes chairing the CALL Interest Section in TESOL and serving on the advisory boards of the TESOL and CALICO Journals.