Jean-Claude Bertin is a full professor of English language learning and teaching at the University of Le Havre, France. He is a member of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research) unit IDEES-CIRTAI, where he coordinates research in the field of CALL and Distance Learning. He has published a large number of articles and reports in this field, in national as well as international journals, authored the book (Des Outils pour des Langues – multimedia et apprentissage, 2001), as well as a contribution to ICT and Language Learning – a European Perspective (Chambers, A. & Davies, G. Eds, 2001). He has presented numerous papers in a variety of international conferences, among which several CALICO symposia in the United States.He is now President of the French research association GERAS (Groupe d’Etude et de Recherche en Anglais de Spécialité), Director of Asp journal (Geras, France), and has been reviewer for several scientific journals, among which Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Taylor & Francis), Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée (Ottawa, Canada), and ReCALL (Cambridge University Press).