31.1179, Calls: Applied Linguistics / System (Jrnl)

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Subject: 31.1179, Calls:  Applied Linguistics / System (Jrnl)

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Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:19:33
From: Rachel Conway [r.conway at elsevier.com]
Subject: Applied Linguistics / System (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: System 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Mar-2021 

System Special Issue Call for Papers:

Teaching and learning languages online: Challenges and responses
The global outbreak of COVID-19 is profoundly changing our lives and
professional practice. In a time when educational institutions in many parts
of the world have been forced to close down, language teachers and learners
have been prompted to teach and learn languages online on a global scale.
Though the integration of technology into language education has been
advancing for years and has been taken up by many in well-resourced contexts,
for the first time thousands of language teachers and learners are relying on
the internet as the only medium for teaching and learning languages. Many of
them may be ill-prepared for the challenge of teaching and learning languages
online, and they may not be well supported by their local infrastructure (e.g.
internet availability) and resources. 
The aim of this special issue is to document the challenges that language
teachers and learners may experience in teaching and learning online, explore
how these challenges have been addressed, and identify creative solutions that
will enable language teachers and learners to overcome challenges in different
contexts, such as homes, state-run schools, universities and private
educational centres. Interested authors may consider submitting your work to
address the following topics (this is not an exhaustive list):

- Enhancing and sustaining language learners' learning online
- Motivating language learners for effective learning
- Designing effective and engaging online learning activities
- Developing online communities for language learners and teachers
- Assessing language learners' progress
- Preparing language teachers for teaching online
- Language teachers' experiences of teaching online

Since COVID-19 is a truly global phenomenon motivating language teachers and
learners to teach and learn languages online, this means that teachers and
learners must rely on the use of technology to continue their teaching and
learning endeavours, sometimes with limited resources. For this reason, the
special issue is particularly interested in studies that engage with the use
of technologies that are likely to be accessible in under-resourced contexts,
rather than just cutting-edge technologies. It is also looking for studies
with significant pedagogical implications for readers in diverse contexts, and
studies on best practice from regions that have been most severely affected by
the outbreak of COVID-19.

Submissions to this special issue will be prioritised in editorial processing,
reviewing and publication. They will be vetted for review, reviewed and
processed for publication on an ongoing basis till March 31st, 2021, after
which the special issue will be closed for new submission. The publisher will
make the articles in this special issue freely available for an extended
period of time. In this unprecedented situation, we believe that it is vital
for the academic community to have access to the latest research on this
important topic. 

Please contact the special issue editors for further information:
Xuesong(Andy) Gao, School of Education, the University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia. Email: xuesong.gao at unsw.edu.au
Jian (Tracy) Tao, School of Foreign Studies, Shanghai University of Finance
and Economics, Shanghai, China. Email: tao.jian at mail.shufe.edu.cn
Or visit the journal homepage at www.journals.elsevier.com/system




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