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Heather Lotherington; Noah Bradley – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
This article presents a study on novel language forms and uses across evolving digital environments, and questions whether emerging digital communication conventions should have a place in language education. The study was motivated by the deepening gap between the content of and approaches to language instruction evident in popular…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Language Research, Digital Literacy, Content Analysis
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Chen, Xieling; Zou, Di; Xie, Haoran; Su, Fan – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
The advance of educational technologies and digital devices have made computer-assisted language learning (CALL) an active interdisciplinary field with increasing research potential and topic diversity. Questions like "what topics and technologies attract the interest of the CALL community?," "how have these topics and technologies…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research
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Plonsky, Luke; Ziegler, Nicole – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The relationship between computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and second language acquisition (SLA) has been studied both extensively, covering numerous subdomains, and intensively, resulting in hundreds of primary studies. It is therefore no surprise that CALL researchers, as in other areas of applied linguistics, have turned in recent…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Yim, Soobin; Warschauer, Mark – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
The increasingly widespread use of social software (e.g., Wikis, Google Docs) in second language (L2) settings has brought a renewed attention to collaborative writing. Although the current methodological approaches to examining collaborative writing are valuable to understand L2 students' interactional patterns or perceived experiences, they can…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Processes
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Blake, Robert – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
Most L2 instructors implement their curriculum with an eye to improving the four skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Absent in this vision of language are notions of pragmatic, sociolinguistic, and multicultural competencies. Although current linguistic theories posit a more complex, interactive, and integrated model of language,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Task Analysis, Educational Technology
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Sotillo, Susana M. – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
The following commentary presents an overview of earlier studies of discourse functions and syntactic complexity as well as recent investigations that focus on interaction and measures of syntactic and lexical complexity in learners' output in traditional classrooms and computer-mediated environments. Recent studies emphasize the need for better…
Descriptors: Syntax, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Communicative Competence (Languages)
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Lin, Huifen – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
Drawing on interactionist and socio-cultural theories, tools provided in computer-mediated communication (CMC) environments have long been considered able to create an environment that shares many communicative features with face-to-face communication. Over the past two decades, researchers have employed a variety of strategies to examine the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Program Effectiveness
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Lin, Huifen – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
This meta-analysis reports the results of a systematic synthesis of primary studies on the effectiveness of computer-mediated communication (CMC) in second language acquisition (SLA) for the period 2000-2012. By extracting information on 21 features from each primary study, this meta-analysis intends to summarize the CMC research literature for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Lin, Wei-Chen; Huang, Hung-Tzu; Liou, Hsien-Chin – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
As various means of computer mediated communication (CMC) have been incorporated within language classrooms over the past two decades, it has become important to critically understand whether, to which extent, and under what contextual factors, a particular type of CMC is more effective than other modes of communication. This study examined the…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication, Second Language Learning, Meta Analysis