37.2688, Books: Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning: Satar and Seedhouse (eds.) (2026)

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Date: 17-Aug-2026
From: Lucy Trotter [lucy.trotter at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning: Satar and Seedhouse (eds.) (2026)


Title: Cultural Tasks for Digital Language Learning
Series Title: Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
           http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-tasks-for-digital-language-learning-9781350339439/

Editor(s): Müge Satar and Paul Seedhouse

Hardback, 9781350339439, £95.00

Abstract:

Explaining how the cultural practices of a community can be used as
the vehicle for learning its language, this book shows how two apps
have been developed to deliver language learning while users are
carrying out real-life cultural activities.
Many people are motivated to learn foreign languages by their interest
in foreign cultures, cuisines and activities such as origami,
Hallowe'en pumpkins or cooking a meal from the target culture. This
book shows how these motivations can be integrated into the way we
learn languages using the latest digital technology: the Linguacuisine
and ENACT apps.
Written by experts in education, educational technology and applied
linguistics, the book introduces the concept of the cultural task and
provides a model, principles and procedures, enabling professionals in
any area – including teachers and community workers – to adapt the
apps to their own environment. Video tutorials on the accompanying
website give users a hands-on introduction to using the apps and
authoring their own cultural tasks in their own language for use by
others. As such, the apps constitute a rich online repository of Open
Educational Resources (OERs).
The chapters offer in-depth descriptions of how the apps were
implemented in 5 different countries, with 9 different languages and
cultures, and clear research evidence of the learning of cultural
practices and languages through varied data sources including
photographs of app use and cultural artefacts produced by users.
The editors won the 2025 ReCALL Annual Article Prize for their article
Migrants' digital skills development: Engaging with and creating
digital cultural activities on the ENACT web app.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition




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