Volume 26 Number 1 - Language Learning and Technology

Articles

Multiple online environments as complex systems: Toward an orchestration of environments

Marco Cappellini & Christelle Combe

Distance learning, telecollaboration, and virtual exchange rely more and more on multiple online environments. Research on how teachers and learners …

Dec 12

ICALL offering individually adaptive input: Effects of complex input on L2 development

Xiaobin Chen, Detmar Meurers & Patrick Rebuschat

The Artificial Intelligence methods employed in Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) in principle makes it possible to individually support …

Nov 28

Vocabulary learning through a daily task of cooking in the Digital Kitchen

Jaeuk Park

Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching (TBLT) has been integrated with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), contributing to pedagogical developments in the …

Oct 31

Assistive design for English phonetic tools (ADEPT) in language learning

Maritza Medina González & Debra M. Hardison

Assistive Design for English Phonetic Tools (ADEPT) was developed to improve inclusion in classrooms and enhance collaboration among blind, low …

Oct 17

Impact of mobile virtual reality on EFL learners’ listening comprehension

Tzu-Yu Tai

Virtual reality (VR) has received increasing attention from researchers and practitioners in EFL listening. However, prior studies are primarily concerned …

Sep 19

Different effects of machine translation on L2 revisions across students’ L2 writing proficiency levels

Sangmin-Michelle Lee

In recent years, machine translation (MT) has been gaining popularity, both in academic settings and in everyday life among foreign …

Sep 5

Investigating the influence of video-dubbing tasks on EFL learning

Heng-Tsung Danny Huang

This study investigates the effects of completing video-dubbing tasks on English speaking proficiency, English public speaking anxiety (EPSA), and group …

Aug 29

Dialogue systems for language learning: A meta-analysis

Serge Bibauw, Wim Van den Noortgate, Thomas François & Piet Desmet

The present study offers a meta-analysis of effectiveness studies on dialogue-based CALL, systems affording a learner practice in a foreign …

Aug 15

Social media as an e-portfolio platform: Effects on L2 learners’ speaking performance

Yan Zheng & Jessie S. Barrot

In the past few years, there has been an increase in the use of social media for language pedagogy. While …

Aug 8

The interplay between metalanguage, feedback, and meaning negotiation in oral interaction

Laia Canals

The present article explores the affordances virtual exchanges provide to foster a focus on form, interactional feedback, and meaning negotiation …

Aug 3

Association between the characteristics of out-of-class technology-mediated language experience and L2 vocabulary knowledge

Chun Lai, Yang Liu, Jingjing Hu, Phil Benson & Boning Lyu

Out-of-class autonomous language learning with technology is positively associated with learners’ L2 vocabulary knowledge (Lee, 2019; Webb, 2015). An understanding …

Jul 18

Teachers’ technology-related self-images and roles: Exploring CALL teachers’ professional identity

Zahra Shafiee, S. Susan Marandi & Vahid Reza Mirzaeian

Despite the surge of interest in language teachers’ professional identity (TPI) as an integral component of their professional growth (Barkhuizen, …

Jun 20

Computing curriculum time and input for incidentally learning academic vocabulary

Clarence Green

This paper computes estimates of the potential for Extensive Reading (ER) and Extensive Viewing (EV) to support the academic and …

Jun 8

Integrating the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals: Developing content for virtual exchanges

Chesla Ann Lenkaitis

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in 2015 as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable …

May 2

Investigating learner autonomy and vocabulary learning efficiency with MALL

Nigel P. Daly

The road to second language competence is a long and arduous one, and much of its effort involves learning to …

Apr 18

Learners’ engagement on a social networking platform: An ecological analysis

Boning Lyu & Chun Lai

Language learners are actively engaging in language learning beyond the classroom. However, social networking sites, despite playing a major role …

Apr 4

Toward a flipped 5E model for teaching problem-solution writing in ESL courses: A two-year longitudinal experiment

Yau Wai Lam, Khe Foon Hew & Chengyuan Jia

Many English-as-Second-Language (ESL) learners find it highly challenging to write problem-solution essays. This difficulty is partly caused by the pedagogies …

Mar 28

Training in machine translation post-editing for foreign language students

Hong Zhang & Olga Torres-Hostench

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) training for FL students. …

Mar 21

Automated written corrective feedback: Error-correction performance and timing of delivery

Jim Ranalli & Taichi Yamashita

To the extent automated written corrective feedback (AWCF) tools such as Grammarly are based on sophisticated error-correction technologies, such as …

Mar 7

Second language (L2) gains through digital game-based language learning (DGBLL): A meta-analysis

Daniel H. Dixon, Tülay Dixon & Eric Jordan

Studies on digital game-based language learning (DGBLL) have increased in numbers, creating a pool of studies that can be meta-analyzed …

Feb 28

“A better me”: Using acoustically modified learner voices as models

Alice J. Henderson & Radek Skarnitzl

This paper presents the results of a brief mixed-methods intervention which sought to modify the production of prominence-related features in …

Feb 14

Google Translate as a tool for self-directed language learning

Catharina van Lieshout & Walcir Cardoso

This study examined the pedagogical use of Google Translate (GT) and its associated text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) and automatic speech recognition …