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Volume 24 Number 2
June 2020
Special Issue: Technology-enhanced L2 Instructional Pragmatics
Edited by
Carl Blyth
Julie Sykes
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Technology-enhanced L2 instructional pragmatics

Carl Blyth & Julie Sykes

Articles

Beyond the curriculum: Extended discourse practice through self-access pragmatics simulations

Tetyana Sydorenko, Zachary Jones, Phoebe Daurio & Steven Thorne

Usage-based linguistics posits that communicative functions, including pragmatics, are at the core of language (Tomasello, 1992). It is surprising, then, …

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Patterns of peer interaction in multimodal L2 digital social reading

James Law, David Barny & Rachel Poulin

Although L2 reading is traditionally framed as an individual enterprise, digital annotation tools (DATs) have recently been developed allowing groups …

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Robot-Assisted Instruction of L2 Pragmatics: Effects on Young EFL Learners’ Speech Act Performance

Minoo Alemi & Nafiseh Haeri

Technology, as a source of instruction, has fulfilled various purposes in foreign language learning environments. During the last decade, Robot-Assisted …

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Email requests: Politeness evaluations by instructors from diverse language backgrounds

Michael Winans

This study investigates syntactic modifiers as part of the request speech act within email messages and builds on studies of …

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Columns

Emerging Technologies

Edited by Robert Godwin-Jones

Bots for language learning now: Current and future directions

Luke Fryer, David Coniam, Rollo Carpenter & Diana Lăpușneanu

Bots are destined to dominate how humans interact with the internet of things that continues to grow around them. Despite …

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Language Teaching and Technology Forum

Edited by Greg Kessler

Exploring the blended learning design for argumentative writing

Tan Jin, Yanfang Su & Jun Lei

The importance of argumentative writing has long been recognized. However, many foreign language learners struggle to make effective argumentation and …

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Call for Papers for a special issue on Automated Writing Evaluation

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Media Reviews

Review of Gameful second and foreign language teaching and learning: Theory, research, and practice

James York

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Review of Flipping academic English language learning: Experiences from an American university

Ali Dincer

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Review of Enhancements and limitations to ICT-based informal language learning: Emerging research and opportunities

Hebing Xu & Wenfei Hu

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