The 2019 Volume of ARAL, Volume 39, will focus on Technology.
An excerpt from:
History, Pedagogy, Data and New Directions: An Introduction to the Technology Issue
Trude Heift (Simon Fraser University), Alison Mackey (Georgetown University)
and Bryan Smith (Arizona State University)
The focus of this 2019 issue of ARAL is educational technology. The issue includes review papers, position papers, empirical papers and short reports. It is a unique compilation of articles in that, unlike other special issues in Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) journals (e.g., CALICO Journal, CALL, Language Learning & Technology, ReCALL, and System) they are specifically devoted to research that reports on a particular aspect of language learning and technology (e.g., computer-mediated communication), the topics covered here are dynamic and wide ranging, as befits the broad field of applied linguistics. Articles here include a commentary on second dialects as well as second languages, concerns of multilingualism and technology, corpus linguistics and its relationship to second language acquisition, learner autonomy, current issues in pragmatics, digital discourses, data mining, as well as two empirical studies dealing with learning contributions of technology-mediated instruction. The authors of these pieces hail from universities in the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, The Netherlands, France, and Japan. Work by senior scholars who have a long history of contributions in this area appears together with work by junior scholars, as well as graduate students, which underscores the variety of viewpoints represented.
ARAL 39 Technology - Table of Contents
History, Pedagogy, Data and New Directions: An Introduction to the Technology Issue
Trude Heift, Alison Mackey and Bryan Smith
Historical developments
Reframing technology’s role in language teaching: A retrospective report
Lara Lomicka Anderson and Gillian Lord
Multilingualism and technology: A review of developments in digital communication from monolingualism to idiolingualism
Helen Kelly Holmes
Pedagogical/Methodological issues in the use of technologies
Technology, motivation and autonomy, and teacher psychology in language learning: Exploring the myths and possibilities
Glenn Stockwell & Hayo Reinders
Technology and Learner Autonomy: An Argument in Favor of the Nexus of Formal and Informal Language Learning
Chun Lai
World CALL: Are we connected?
Mike Levy
Constructing and examining corpora and data sets
Corpus Linguistics, learner corpora and SLA: Employing technology to analyze language use
Tony McEnery, Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova, and Jay Banerjee.
Recent contributions of data mining to language learning research
Mark Warschauer, Soobin Yim, Hansol Lee, Binbin Zheng
Rethinking and expanding current perspectives
Technology and L2 Pragmatics Learning
Marta González-Lloret
Emergent Digital Discourse(s): What can we learn from hashtags and digital games to expand learners’ second language repertoire?
Julie Sykes
Past the anthropocentric: Socio-cognitive perspectives for tech-mediated language learning
Maria Ocando Finol
Media and Second Dialect Acquisition
Jennifer Nycz
Empirical investigations in technology-mediated language learning contexts
Scaling up intervention studies to investigate real-life foreign language learning in school
Detmar Meurers, Kordula De Kuthy, Florian Nuxoll, Björn Rudzewitz, Ramon Ziai
Alignment during synchronous video vs. written chat L2 interactions: A methodological exploration
Marije Michel & Marco Cappellini