Communicative aspects of ICALL: what are the impacts on language learning and teaching ?
(2022) Sociolinguistics symposium 24 — Location: Ghent (13.July.2022)
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- Our presentation will discuss the radical potential of new and emerging technologies for the learning and teaching of additional languages (see Sayers, D., R. Sousa-Silva, S. Höhn et al., 2021, for a forecast of such technologies). Our specific focus will be on communicative aspects of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Bibauw et al., 2019; Hoehn, 2019). For example, improved and more easily available virtual reality will allow for much more immersive virtual conversations with remote human participants. Lifelike chatbots will make conversation practice significantly easier. Improved mobile translation will also substantially shift the opportunity cost of learning languages. How this will affect learner motivation, public investment and educational policies is still largely unknown to date, and discussions on such topics should start without further delay. Such evolutions will open up new avenues for language learning, highly distinct from current pedagogical models. The smooth integration of emerging technologies in foreign/second language learning and teaching contexts also needs to take into account teachers’ and learners’ needs, whilst keeping in mind that these emerging technologies will also be contoured by existing vectors of privilege and disadvantage. Our presentation will discuss those aspects and present the recommendations of three expert panel meetings that we organized in 2021 in the framework of the EU COST Action CA19102 on ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era’. Bibauw, S., François, T., & Desmet, P. (2019). Discussing with a computer to practice a foreign language: Research synthesis and conceptual framework of dialogue-based CALL. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 32(8), 827–877. https://doi.org/10.1080/09588221.2018.1535508 Hoehn, S. (2019). Artificial Companion for Second Language Conversation. Springer International Publishing. Sayers, D., R. Sousa-Silva, S. Höhn et al. (2021). The Dawn of the HumanMachine Era: A forecast of new and emerging language technologies. Report for EU COST Action CA19102 ‘Language In The Human-Machine Era’. https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1
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Meunier, F., Klimova, B., & et al. (2022). Communicative aspects of ICALL: what are the impacts on language learning and teaching ? Sociolinguistics symposium 24, Ghent. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/103123