Errol M. O’Neill (he/him) is an Associate Professor at the University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA). He is Supervisor of French Graduate Teaching Assistants and course designer and developer of the four-course online basic language sequence of French on U of M Global, the University of Memphis’s online degree program.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in French SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education). His research explores the intersection of technology and language learning, in particular student use of electronic tools, including online machine translators, online dictionaries, and more recently, generative AI chatbots.
He has given nearly 40 conference presentations, webinars, workshops, and invited talks on the topics of online machine translation, generative AI, and the integration of technology in language instruction. His forthcoming chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Research in World Language Instruction (expected publication summer 2024) explores the topics of academic integrity and digital literacy among language learners.
Please explore the news items below and other tabs to find out more about my research, teaching, coordination, and other work.
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• To check out a list of my recent conference presentations, invited talks, and panels, please go to Webinars and Talks (up-to-date as of December 2023). If you attended a talk and would like a PowerPoint/materials from it, please contact Errol for more information.
• I had the privilege of giving a webinar about the role of online translators in light of the pandemic. Thank you to everyone who attended — there were over 200 attendees! Links to the PowerPoint and Sample Google Translate Training can be found here.
• My article , “Training students to use online translators and dictionaries: The impact on second language writing scores”, was published in International Journal of Research Studies in Language Learning (IJRSLL)! You can view it for free online by going to the Publications and Projects section of my site.
• I had the honor of being interviewed by Claire Knowles about my research on online translators (Google Translate, etc.) for a two-part episode of the podcast We Teach Languages. Here are the two episodes!
We Teach Languages Episode 88: Google Translate in the Language Classroom with Errol O’Neill, Part I