Building the future by looking to the past: the evolution of research strands in influential CALL papers

Yazdan Choubsaz, Alireza Jalilifar, Alex Boulton

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Abstract

The 2022 EUROCALL conference was held in Reykjavik on 17-19 August 2022 as a fully online event hosted by the Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute for Foreign Languages, the University of Iceland, and the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. The conference theme was Intelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data. This theme reflects the newest developments in the field of technology for language learning. Subfields such as natural language processing and machine learning not only enable smoother spoken and written communication between human learners and computers, but also offer ways in which language learning can be tailored to the needs of individual learners. By adding components of automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech systems, automatic feedback mechanisms, and tracking systems monitoring learners’ progress and their use of tools, applications are becoming better targeted. All of this is used to optimise the learning experience of individual learners. This volume includes 66 short papers by some of the EUROCALL 2022 presenters and it offers a combination of research studies and theoretical papers reflecting the subthemes of the conference. The articles are ordered alphabetically
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent CALL, granular systems and learner data: short papers from EUROCALL 2022
Place of PublicationFrance
PublisherResearch-publishing.net
Pages65-70
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.1436
ISBN (Print)978-2-38372-015-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 12 2022

Keywords

  • CALL research, CALL evolution, research strands, corpus analysis

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