27.2110, Calls: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition/ ReCALL (Jrnl)

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Subject: 27.2110, Calls: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition/ ReCALL (Jrnl)

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 10:31:53
From: Brian Stone [bstone at cambridge.org]
Subject: Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition/ ReCALL (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: ReCALL 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2016 

The following is a call for the submission of preliminary proposals in the
format of a long abstract (max. 1500 words) for a Special Issue of the ReCALL
journal on virtual worlds ''Interactions for language learning in and around
virtual worlds''.

See full call information including timeline, suggested topics and submission
details here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/documents/ReCALL-SI2017_CFP.pd
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Guest editors

Susanna Nocchi, Dublin Institute of Technology
Luisa Panichi, Centro Linguistico, Università di Pisa
Randall Sadler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ciara R. Wigham, Université de Lyon

Pedagogical opportunities offered by three-dimensional virtual worlds and
their application to language learning have generated a considerable amount of
interest and dialogue among educators and educational researchers in recent
years. We define virtual worlds as 3D, immersive, persistent, graphical
environments in which participants are co-present through their avatars and
interact with each other and the world's contents. When characterising virtual
worlds, a distinction is frequently made between social virtual worlds and
gaming virtual worlds. Whereas gaming virtual worlds have an embedded
predetermined goal, social virtual worlds emphasise user-generated content and
require users to fill the environment with meaning and to extend the
environment in order to make sense. Social virtual worlds are therefore not
goal-oriented and adhere to the description proffered by Boellstorff (2008) as
a blank slate that allows for a new type of culture to develop. This special
issue aims to bring together research that specifically focuses on social
virtual worlds.

The special issue seeks to bring together papers that explore the theoretical
frameworks and methodologies needed by researchers to analyse interaction data
from social virtual worlds. It encourages contributions that study
interactions in open-source, browser-based and custom-made virtual worlds, as
well as in those worlds that use mobile-technology.

The special issue will privilege research papers that offer critical
reflection on both teaching practices (the rationale of using social virtual
world platforms) and on the methodological tools of choice in analyses of
empirical data. The editors encourage experimental methodological approaches
building on the research affordances of social virtual worlds and are
interested in papers that not only shed light on the potential of these
environments and their added value but that also make suggestions about how
virtual world educational activities and understandings have washback effects
on our non-virtual world educational practices and thinking.

The guest editors encourage articles that encompass language learning in
primary, secondary or tertiary education. Submissions that focus on the use of
social virtual worlds for non-formal, informal and incidental language
learning purposes are also welcome. The issue aims to reflect a range of
target languages and offer insights on different approaches to language
learning in social virtual worlds that could help to open up this type of
environment to practitioners / researchers who were previously hesitant to use
them.

Guest editors may be reached via recallvirtualworlds at gmail.com




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