<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>SignWriting List</div><div>April 10, 2022</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Language learning and technology journal…</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Language Learning and Technology <<a href="mailto:llt@hawaii.edu" class="">llt@hawaii.edu</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[LLT] New content available - Vol. 26, Issue 1</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 5, 2022 at 1:05:50 PM PDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:llt-l@lists.hawaii.edu" class="">llt-l@lists.hawaii.edu</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:24pt;margin-bottom:6pt" class=""><a href="https://www.lltjournal.org/" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;text-decoration-line:none" class=""><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" class="">New content available - Vol. 26, Issue 1</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-size: 24pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><br class=""></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:24pt;margin-bottom:6pt" class=""><span style="font-weight:normal" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">New Article</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Lyu, B., & Lai, C. (2022). Learners’ engagement on a social networking platform: An ecological analysis. Language Learning & Technology, 26(1), 1–22. <a href="https://www.lltjournal.org/item/10125-73468/" class="">https://www.lltjournal.org/item/10125-73468/</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-e571df23-7fff-2b07-6041-b980a87f473f" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Language learners are actively engaging in language learning beyond the classroom. However, social networking sites, despite playing a major role in people’s lives, have been found to be rarely incorporated into language learners’ learning ecologies. An understanding of the factors that shape learners’ engagement on instruction-oriented social networking sites could inform platform design and enhance the likelihood of platforms being utilized. This study examined a group of language learners’ engagement on an instruction-oriented social networking site, Lang-8, over time. Using narrative data and learners’ behavioral data on the platform, the study revealed how various ecological resources on and outside the platform interacted with one another to shape the dynamic changes in different dimensions of learners’ engagement on the platform over time. The study also suggested that learners’ engagement on the platform further induced reconstruction of their language learning ecologies, providing additional learning opportunities both on and beyond the platform. The findings highlight the importance of supporting learner engagement on technological platforms in an informal learning context and provide insights into how such support could be achieved through system design. </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><b style="font-weight:normal" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Keywords</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">: Informal Learning, Language Learning Ecology, Narrative Inquiry, Learning Beyond the Classroom </span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><b style="font-weight:normal" class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Language(s) Learned in This Study</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, English</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></h1></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Noto Kufi Arabic", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">________________________________________________________________________</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Noto Kufi Arabic", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Dorothy Chun and Trude Heift<br style="box-sizing:border-box" class=""><em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Editors in Chief</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Noto Kufi Arabic", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Philip Hubbard, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Jim Ranalli, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Meei-Ling Liaw, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Lara Lomicka Anderson, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor<br class=""></em>Hayo Reinders, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor<br class=""></em>Jonathon Reinhardt, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor<br class=""></em>Shannon Sauro, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor<br class=""></em>Nina Vyatkina, <em style="box-sizing:border-box" class="">Associate Editor</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: "Noto Sans", "Noto Kufi Arabic", -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Skyler Smela,<em style="box-sizing:border-box" class=""> Managing Editor</em><br style="box-sizing:border-box" class=""><a href="https://www.lltjournal.org/" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,103,152)" target="_blank" class="">Language Learning & Technology</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

</div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>________________________________________________

<p>

</p><p>

SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION

</p><p>

Valerie Sutton

SignWriting List moderator

<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a>

</p><p>

Post Messages to the SignWriting List:

<a href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu">sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu</a>

</p><p>

SignWriting List Archives & Home Page

<a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist" target="_blank">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist</a>

</p><p>

Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages

<a href="http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1" target="_blank">http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1</a>