Volume 27 Number 2, February 2023 Special Issue: Semiotics in CALL Emerging spaces for language learning: AI bots, ambient intelligence, and the metaverse

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

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Volume 27 Number 2, February 2023 Special Issue: Semiotics in CALL
contributor.author:
Godwin-Jones, Robert
contributor.editor:
Godwin-Jones, Robert
date.accessioned:
2023-02-10T23:23:17Z
date.available:
2023-02-10T23:23:17Z
date.issued:
2023-02-13
description.abstract:
Looking at human communication from the perspective of semiotics extends our view beyond verbal language to consider other sign systems and meaning-making resources. Those include gestures, body language, images, and sounds. From this perspective, the communicative process expands from individual mental processes of verbalizing to include features of the environment, the place and space in which the communication occurs. It may be—and it is increasingly the case today—that language is mediated through digital networks. Online communication has become multimodal in virtually all platforms. At the same time, mobile devices have become indispensable digital companions, extending our perceptive and cognitive abilities. Advances in artificial intelligence are enabling tools that have considerable potential for language learning, as well as creating more complexity in the relationship between humans and the material world. In this column, we will be looking at changing perspectives on the role of place and space in language learning, as mobile, embedded, virtual, and reality-augmenting technologies play an ever-increasing role in our lives. Understanding that dynamic is aided by theories and frameworks such as 4E cognition and sociomaterialism, which posit closer connections between human cognition/language and the world around us.
endingpage:
27
identifier.citation:
Godwin-Jones, R. (2023). Emerging spaces for language learning: AI bots, ambient intelligence, and the metaverse. Language Learning & Technology, 27(2), 6–27. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73501
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1094-3501
identifier.uri:
https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73501
llt.topic:
Emerging Technologies
number:
2
publicationname:
Language Learning & Technology
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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/item/10125-73501/
startingpage:
6
subject:
Artificial Intelligence Chatbots Place-based Language Learning Sociomaterialism
title:
Emerging spaces for language learning: AI bots, ambient intelligence, and the metaverse
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Column
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Text
volume:
27