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From http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/27/27-2110.html

Call for the submission of preliminary proposals in the format of a long abstract (max. 1500 words) for a Special Issue of the ReCALL journal on virtual worlds, “Interactions for language learning in and around virtual worlds.”

The special issue seeks to bring together papers that explore the theoretical frameworks and methodologies needed by researchers to analyze interaction data from social virtual worlds. It encourages contributions that study interactions in open-source, browser-based and custom-made virtual worlds, as well as in those worlds that use mobile-technology.

The special issue will privilege research papers that offer critical reflection on both teaching practices (the rationale of using social virtual world platforms) and on the methodological tools of choice in analyses of empirical data. The editors encourage experimental methodological approaches building on the research affordances of social virtual worlds and are interested in papers that not only shed light on the potential of these environments and their added value but that also make suggestions about how virtual world educational activities and understandings have washback effects on our non-virtual world educational practices and thinking.

The guest editors encourage articles that encompass language learning in primary, secondary or tertiary education. Submissions that focus on the use of social virtual worlds for non-formal, informal and incidental language learning purposes are also welcome. The issue aims to reflect a range of target languages and offer insights on different approaches to language learning in social virtual worlds that could help to open up this type of environment to practitioners / researchers who were previously hesitant to use them.

Call deadline: September 1, 2016

View the full call for submissions at http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/documents/ReCALL-SI2017_CFP.pdf