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The Journal of Teaching English with Technology (TEwT) is seeking contributions for its special issue on Technology-mediated task-based English language learning, edited by Anna Franca Plastina, University of Calabria, Italy, to appear in April 2015.
The potential synergy between task-based language learning (TBLL) and the use of technology presents a number of challenges for current English teachers. Nevertheless, "anyone concerned with second language teaching and learning in the 21st century needs to grasp the nature of the unique technology-mediated tasks learners can engage in for language acquisition" (Chapelle, 2001:2).
Contributions may focus on the issue in a number of ways, including but not limited to:
- Challenges and opportunities of technology-mediated task-based English language learning
- Innovations in language learning through collaborative digital tasks
- Language learner and teacher roles in technology-enhanced task-based instruction
- Learner behaviour and attitudes towards technology-mediated task-based language instruction
- Learner Empowerment in technological-mediated task-based language learning
- Learning/cognitive styles in digital task-based language learning
- Multimodality in task-based language instruction
- Pedagogical evaluation of web-based tools and mobile devices for language learning tasks
- Pedagogical uses of authentic digital tools/materials for task-based learning
- Productive and participatory learning processes in Pedagogy 2.0 tasks
- Social Media and possible task-based applications in language learning (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, Wikis, Forums)
- Teacher Development for technology-mediated task-based instruction
- Technological software applications in ESL/EFL/ESP tasks
- Technological task design for ESL/EFL/ESP courseware and syllabi through the use, for example, of social-constructivist, connectivist, personalized learning approaches
- Technological-mediated task-based language instruction for professional training and practice
- Technological-mediated task-based language learning in digital environments (e.g. MOOCs, Learning Management Systems, Moodle, Poodle, use of Webquests)
- The effectiveness/drawbacks of task-based learner e-portfolios
- The impact of digital language learning policies on task-based instruction.
Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2014.
View the full call for submissions at http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-2901.html
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