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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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Furstenberg, Gilberte; English, Kathryn – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
Two of the original authors of "Giving a Virtual Voice to the Silent Language of Culture: The Cultura Project", published in "Language Learning & Technology" in 2001, look back on the origin of the Cultura project, its goals, and the approach and materials used. Their commentary then focuses on the features and the…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Intercultural Communication, Teaching Methods, Questionnaires
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Thorne, Steven L. – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
In this article I revisit the cultures-of-use conceptual framework--that technologies, as forms and processes comprising human culture, mediate and assume variable meanings, values, and conventionalized functions for different communities (Thorne, 2003). I trace the antecedent arc of investigation and serendipitous encounters that led to the 2003…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Environment, Sociocultural Patterns
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Lee, Lina – Language Learning & Technology, 2016
This study investigated the affordances for autonomous learning in a fully online learning environment involving the implementation of task-based instruction in conjunction with Web 2.0 technologies. To that end, four-skill-integrated tasks and digital tools were incorporated into the coursework. Data were collected using midterm reflections,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Task Analysis, Online Courses, Second Language Learning
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Chen, Rainbow Tsai-Hung – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
While research has reported generally enthusiastic results regarding L2 blogging, some studies have found contrasting blogging experiences among individual learners. Consequently, this study investigated the factors underlying such discrepancies by exploring 33 EFL learners' experiences of participating in a blog project at a Taiwanese university.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), College Students, Computer Mediated Communication
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King, Brian W. – Language Learning & Technology, 2015
This study explores the writing of Wikipedia articles as a form of authentic writing for learners of English in Hong Kong. Adopting "Second Language Socialization and Language Learning & Identity" approaches to language learning inquiry, it responds to an identified shortage of research on computer-mediated language socialization.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Encyclopedias, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing
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Diez-Bedmar, Maria Belen; Perez-Paredes, Pascual – Language Learning & Technology, 2012
Online collaborative writing tasks are frequently undertaken in forums and wikis. Variation between these two communication modes has yet to be examined, particularly type of feedback and its effects. We investigated the type of feedback and the impact of English native-speakers' feedback on Spanish peers' discourse restructuring in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Collaborative Writing, Native Speakers