| Body |  CASLS Director Julie Sykes and COERLL Director Carl Blyth are editing a special issue of Language Learning & Technology focusing on technology and learning L2 pragmatics, to be published June 1, 2020. This special issue takes advantage of both editors' extensive research into pragmatics and technology. Please see the attached call for papers and consider submitting an abstract by October 1, 2018.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:
- Development of L2 pragmatic competence and metapragmatic awareness via technology
- Innovative uses of technology to capture and represent language as situated practice
- Theoretical approaches to instructional pragmatics (e.g., conversation analysis, cultural scripts, politeness theory, sociocultural theory, speech act theory, etc.)
- Technology-mediated methods for teaching L2 pragmatics (e.g., data-driven learning, digital games, digital simulations, and discourse completion tasks)
- Learning strategies for L2 pragmatics
- Approaches to assessing L2 pragmatics
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