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Klimnova, Liudmila – Language Learning & Technology, 2021
Drawing on past and current scholarship on digitally mediated communication in language learning, this review article examines the evolution of identity research in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) from the 1990s to the present day. The article offers an in-depth overview of critical issues and topics associated with language learner…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Concept
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Shafirova, Liudmila; Cassany, Daniel – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
This article reports on fan practices, in English, among an international community of bronies--adult fans of the animated cartoon "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" (MLP). Originally directed at a target audience of young girls, MLP has become popular among men. These older male fans have been extremely active in producing multimodal…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cartoons
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Kulavuz-Onal, Derya; Vásquez, Camilla – Language Learning & Technology, 2018
The affordances associated with networked multilingualism (Androutsopoulos, 2015) have led social media scholars to replace traditional notions of code-switching with broader concepts such as translingual practices. In an attempt to further our understanding of online multilingual linguistic practices in the context of educational…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Media, Code Switching (Language), Language Teachers
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Warner, Chantelle; Chen, Hsin-I – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
The easy accessibility, ubiquity, and plurilingualism of popular SNSs such as Facebook have inspired many scholars and practitioners of second language teaching and learning to integrate networked forms of communication into educational contexts such as language classrooms and study abroad programs (e.g., Blattner & Fiori, 2011; Lamy &…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Social Media, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism
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Chen, Hsin-I – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study examines the literacy practices of two multilingual writers in social networking communities. The findings show that the multilingual writers explored and reappropriated symbolic resources afforded by the social networking site as they aligned themselves with particular collective and personal identities at local and global levels.…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Self Concept, Multilingualism, Computer Mediated Communication
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MacDonald, Penny; Garcia-Carbonell, Amparo; Carot, Sierra, Jose Miguel – Language Learning & Technology, 2013
This study focuses on the computer-aided analysis of interlanguage errors made by the participants in the telematic simulation IDEELS (Intercultural Dynamics in European Education through on-Line Simulation). The synchronous and asynchronous communication analysed was part of the MiLC Corpus, a multilingual learner corpus of texts written by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Interlanguage