- The impact of virtual reality (VR) pedagogy on L2 English learners’ oral communication and pragmatic competence
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...Chik, 2014; Kessler, 2023; Loewen
et al., 2022). Of these innovations, virtual reality (VR) technologies have received a considerable amount
of attention from researchers who are interested in compu...
by Melike Akay, Matt Kessler
in Volume 28 Number 1, 2024
- Announcements and news from our sponsors
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...Chik, Bertha Chin, Jennifer Claro, Tom Cobb, Tatiana
Codreanu, Karina Collentine, Kathy Conklin, Frederik Cornillie, Elena Cotos, Jeremy Cross, Jhon Cuesta
Medina, D. Joseph Cunningham, Jonathan deH...
in Volume 23 Number 1, February 2019 Special Issue: CALL in the Digital Wilds
- Announcements and news from our sponsors
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...Chik
Ms. Jennifer Claro
Prof. Andrew Cohen
Dr. Cathy Cohen
Dr. " Jillian" Conry
Mr. Frederik Cornillie
Dr. Beatriz Cortina-Pérez
Dr. Elena Cotos
Dr. D. Joseph Cunningham
Dr. Amanda Dalola
Dr...
in Volume 24 Number 1, February 2020
- Chasing the butterfly effect: Informal language learning online as a complex system
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...Chik & Ho, 2017) demonstrate how leisure
time activities, such as watching TV series or YouTube videos, listening to popular music, and participating
in social media, can be highly motivating. The mo...
by Robert Godwin-Jones
in Volume 22 Number 2, June 2018 Special Issue on Qualitative Research in CALL
- Activate space rats! Fluency development in a mobile game-assisted environment
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...Chik, 2014).
While non-mobile digital games have been used successfully in L2 education, they are not readily
accessible in most classroom environments. Mobile devices “[increase] learners’ capabili...
by Jennica Grimshaw, Walcir Cardoso
in Volume 22 Number 3, October 2018
- Second language writing online: An update
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...Chik, 2014; Ryu, 2013; Thorne, 2012) for language learning. It may
be an easier transition into new genres to use forms already associated with learning, rather than those
deeply immersed with stude...
by Robert Godwin-Jones
in Volume 22 Number 1, February 2018
- An ecological perspective on the use of memes for language learning
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...Chik, 2014; Reinhardt &
Han, 2021), and virtual reality (Berti et al., 2020). Research descriptively illuminates unique multimodal
affordances when learners remix multilingual semiotic resources in ...
by Yiting Han, Blaine E Smith
in Volume 27 Number 2, February 2023 Special Issue: Semiotics in CALL
- Building the porous classroom: An expanded model for blended language learning
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...Chik & Ho, 2017). A further caveat of the studies on informal language learning is that they deal with
learners beyond the novice level. Also, although some studies show improvement in productive ski...
by Robert Godwin-Jones
in Volume 24 Number 3, October 2020
- Computer-based multimodal composing activities, self-revision, and L2 acquisition through writing
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...Chik,
& Jones, 2015; Jeon-Ellis, Debski, & Wigglesworth, 2005) and that “languages are best learned by a
combination of talking, hearing, reading, and writing” (Magnan, 2007, p. 153). Even though so...
by Richmond Dzekoe
in Volume 21 Number 2, June 2017
- Negotiations for meaning in the context of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game
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...Chik, 2013, p. 835), which refers to informal L2 learning through using the
language in digital environments in pursuit of leisure rather than learning interests.
A recent review (see Jabbari & Es...
by Nasser Jabbari, Zohreh R. Eslami
in Volume 27 Number 1, 2023