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Volume 27 Number 2
February 2023
Special Issue: Semiotics in CALL
Edited by
Liudmila Klimanova
Lara Lomicka
Semiotics in CALL: Signs, meanings, and multimodality in digital spaces

Liudmila Klimanova & Lara Lomicka

About this Issue

From the Editors: The diverse contributions to this special issue showcase a vast epistemological breadth of topics and issues in the study of semiotics in language learning and teaching. As CALL theory has shifted from a purely structuralist approach towards a holistic and transdisciplinary view of language acquisition (Chun et al., 2016; Kern, 2021), the articles in this special issue shed light on learners’ ability to manipulate and interpret a broad array of linguistic and non-linguistic sign systems. Additionally, these articles navigate across culturally situated semiotic forms, materials, and virtual social contexts. The diversity of thought and ideas in this issue helps to move semiotics in CALL to the forefront as a more prominent subfield with new categorizations and theorizations.

Voices from LLT - A conversation with Lara Lomicka and Liudmila Klimanova

Articles

Sociotechnical structures, materialist semiotics, and online language learning

Ron Darvin

Based on a study of the digital literacy practices of immigrant Filipino students in Vancouver, this paper focuses on how …

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Geosemiotics as a multiperspectivist lens: Theorizing L2 use of semiotic resources in negotiation of meaning with mobiles from outside the classroom

Helen Lee & Regine Hampel

The theorization of how multimodal learning intersects with online teaching environments has emerged as a key research area in relationship …

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Multimodal representation in virtual exchange: A social semiotic approach to critical digital literacy

Müge Satar, Mirjam Hauck & Zeynep Bilki

For agentive and influential involvement in online communities, language learners and teachers need to develop critical digital literacy (CDL), conceptualized …

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Integrating semiotic resources in CALL activity designs

Ruslan Suvorov & Paul Gruba

Grounded in the three-tiered transdisciplinary SLA framework of the Douglas Fir Group (2016), we explore how the concept of ‘semiotic …

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Negotiation of meaning via virtual exchange in immersive virtual reality environments

Hsin-I Chen & Ana Sevilla-Pavón

This study examines how English-as-lingua-franca (ELF) learners employ semiotic resources, including head movements, gestures, facial expression, body posture, and spatial …

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An ecological perspective on the use of memes for language learning

Yiting Han & Blaine E Smith

Internet memes—usually taking the form of an image, GIF, or video with text—have become an important type of semiotic tool …

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Virtual world-supported contextualized multimodal EFL learning at a library

Siao-Cing Guo & Yu-Ju Lan

This study aims to investigate the influence of story creation on young EFL learners’ reading performance. Action research was adopted …

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Learning a foreign language and locality through an animated documentary film

Solvita Burr

This paper describes one 4-week long online language learning module which utilizes the animated documentary film My Favorite War (Burkovska-Jakobsen, …

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Columns

Emerging Technologies

Edited by Robert Godwin-Jones

Emerging spaces for language learning: AI bots, ambient intelligence, and the metaverse

Robert Godwin-Jones

Looking at human communication from the perspective of semiotics extends our view beyond verbal language to consider other sign systems …

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Call for Papers

Call for papers for a special issue on Indigenous Languages and Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) with Technology

Paula Winke & Kadidja Koné

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