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Call for Papers: Special Issue 36.1: Moving forward with critical CALL to promote social inclusivity
This special issue will explore the interplay between technology-mediated language learning and issues of social injustice, power, and inequality. … Integral questions from the perspective of critical CALL include: How does technology play a role in this dynamic? How do neoliberal principles such as an individualistic competition model and CALL intertwine? (How) can we leverage technology to promote “social inclusion” (Warschauer, 2003, p. 8)? Gruba and Hinkelman’s (2012) three-tiered approach to the design and evaluation of blended learning experiences provides a springboard for expanding the study of critical CALL. Where most critical CALL research to date has been concerned with micro-level issues (e.g., how a particular technology used in a particular classroom helped students learn the target language), there is relatively little discussion of meso-level issues and macro-level issues. By focusing on these two areas, the special issue issue seeks to uncover which structures, strategies, or modes of technology-mediated language instruction serve to “enact, sustain, legitimate, condone or ignore social inequality and injustice” (van Dijk, 1993, p. 252). Ultimately, it asks a similar question to that posed by Motha (2014, p. xxiii): How do we participate in CALL “in a way that is responsible, ethical, and conscious of the consequences of our practice”?
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 15, 2017
View the full call for papers at https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CALICO/announcement/view/218
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