- The Effects of Text-Based SCMC on SLA: A Meta Analysis
 
                            - 
                                
...Sykes, 2005). Benefits of applying SCMC to second language (L2) 
classrooms have been reported including more equitable student participation (e.g., Kern, 1995), more 
learner language output (e.g., S...
                                by  Wei-Chen Lin,   Hung-Tzu Huang,   Hsien-Chin Liou 
 
                                in  Volume 17 Number 2, June 2013
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Using Facebook to promote Korean EFL learners’ intercultural competence
 
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...Sykes, Oskoz, & Thorne, 2008). Yet to date, few empirical studies have examined Facebook 
use for telecollaboration, and little information exists on the educational possibility of Facebook for an 
ef...
                                by  Seunghee Jin 
 
                                in  Volume 19 Number 3, October 2015 Special Issues on Digital Literacies and Language Learning
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Review of Digital language learning and teaching: Research, theory, and practice
 
                            - 
                                
...Sykes, J., & Reinhardt, J. (2012). Language at play: Digital games in second and foreign language 
teaching and learning. New York, NY: Pearson. 
About the Authors 
Ayşe Merzifonluoğlu is a Research A...
                                by  Ayşe Merzifonluoğlu,   Talip Gonulal 
 
                                in  Volume 22 Number 1, February 2018
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Quantity and diversity of informal digital learning of English
 
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...Sykes, 2009). On these grounds, it can be implied 
that IDLE quantity may help Korean EFL learners emotionally. For example, they may enjoy learning 
122 Language Learning & Technology 
 
English more...
                                by  Ju Seong Lee 
 
                                in  Volume 23 Number 1, February 2019 Special Issue: CALL in the Digital Wilds
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Task-based language teaching online: A guide for teachers
 
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...Sykes, 2005; Thomas & Reinders, 
2012; Thorne, 2008; see also Loewen & Wolff, 2016). 
How to Do TBLT via Online Interactive Tutorials 
Now that we have reviewed key fundamentals of TBLT, we demonstrat...
                                by  Melissa Baralt,   José Morcillo Gómez 
 
                                in  Volume 21 Number 3, October 2017 Special Issue on Corpora in Language Learning and Teaching
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Establishing an empirical link between computer-mediated communication (CMC) and SLA: A meta-analysis of the research
 
                            - 
                                
...Sykes, 2005;); 
writing (Jou, 2008; Liang, 2010; Shang, 2007); grammar (Sauro, 2009); vocabulary (Fuente, 2003; Lee 
2009; Sasaki & Takeuchi, 2010), and reading (Izquierdo & Reyes, 2009; Jou, 2008; Ku...
                                by  Huifen Lin 
 
                                in  Volume 18 Number 3, October 2014
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Does Second Life improve Mandarin learning by overseas Chinese students?
 
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...Sykes, 2009). 
Regarding studies of Mandarin teaching and learning in SL, Chen (2010) suggested that the instructor 
needs to develop pedagogically sound tasks to motivate learners to want to learn. H...
                                by  Yu-Ju Lan 
 
                                in  Volume 18 Number 2, June 2014 Special Issue: Game-informed L2 Teaching and Learning
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - “Thanks, shokran, gracias”: Translingual practices in a Facebook group
 
                            - 
                                
...Sykes, 2009). Additionally, when these 
interactional contexts are mediated by technologies over the Internet, the historically developed cultures-
of-use within these specific environments (i.e., the...
                                by Derya Kulavuz-Onal,   Camilla Vásquez 
 
                                in  Volume 22 Number 1, February 2018
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Multiple online environments as complex systems: Toward an orchestration of environments
 
                            - 
                                
...Sykes, 2014). New theoretical constructs appeared to capture
these new phenomena, such as Online Informal Learning of English (Sockett, 2014) and learning in the
digital wilds (Sauro & Zourou, 2019).
...
                                by  Marco Cappellini,   Christelle Combe 
 
                                in  Volume 26 Number 1, 2022
                                                     
                        
                
                        
                         
                            - Smartphones and language learning
 
                            - 
                                
...Sykes, 2011), and an EFL project 
from Taiwan designed for vocabulary learning and development of pragmatic abilities in English (Tai, 
2012). Both featured task-based activities in a game environment...
                                by  Robert Godwin-Jones 
 
                                in  Volume 21 Number 2, June 2017