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The Annual Review of Applied Linguistics recently published CASLS Director Dr. Julie M. Sykes’ article “Emergent Digital Discourses: What Can We Learn from Hashtags and Digital Games to Expand Leaners’ Second Language Repertoire?”

In the article, Sykes synthesizes work related to hashtags and digital games in a second language context and examines digital discourses as both the content and context as part of learners’ multilingual experiences. She begins by situating the discussion on digital discourses, reviewing relevant work addressing interactional patterns in each context, and then applying findings to second language teaching and learning. Sykes describes a framework, giving concrete examples, for learner exploration of digital discourses as part of their language learning experiences.