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Date: 27-Oct-2010
From: ALSIC Journal [soumissions_alsic at uni.lu]
Subject: ALSIC - Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication
 

	
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Subject: ALSIC - Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication

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Full Title: ALSIC - Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication 


Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2011 

Call for abstracts for the special issue Social Media and Language Learning: 
(R)evolution?

The ALSIC journal welcomes submission of abstracts for the special issue 
'Social Media and Language Learning: (R)evolution?'
 
See the full call for abstracts here: http://alsic.revues.org/index1695.html

Abstracts (as well as full papers) in English or French will be accepted.
 
The publication timeline is as follows:
 
-	January, 15, 2011: Submission deadline for abstracts (4,000 characters 
without spaces, to be sent to soumissions_alsic at uni.lu) 
-	March, 15, 2011: Invitation to authors to submit a manuscript 
-	September, 1st, 2011:  Submission deadline for manuscripts 
-	April, 15, 2012: Publication of the special issue

Topics for discussion
We particularly welcome abstracts for papers that address one or more of the 
questions below:
- Are the potential benefits of social media, reflected by their fundamental 
characteristics, i.e. horizontality, user-generated content and openness 
(Musser et al. 2007), really new in language learning? What is the essence of 
this novelty and what analytical frameworks does it refer to?
- What relationship is becoming established between web 2.0 artifacts and 
usages; how is this two-way relationship transforming practices, from a 
sociocultural point of view?
- Are there any indices leading to the conclusion that social media may lead 
to the creation a 'new' learning paradigm (cf. Felix, Bax, Levy, Pegrum)? 
What is the essence of this novelty in epistemological terms?
- What about the different degrees of (non-) complementarity (parallel paths, 
paths that come together then divide, merge?) between formal and informal 
spheres of learning?
- How do Personal Learning Environments (PLEs), as aggregators of web 2.0 
resources, call into question language learning practices?
- What is the role of social media in new learning times and spaces, aimed at 
lifelong learning?
- What effect could social media have on processes of collaborative language 
learning?

Expected contributions
We welcome contributions in a variety of types including:
- case studies, descriptive or ethnographic;
- experimental research (with experimentation protocol and data analysis, 
social network analysis);
- action-research or research and development type of studies;
- position papers or critical studies;
- prospective studies.

See the full call for abstracts here: http://alsic.revues.org/index1695.html




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