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> Language Learning & Technology
> http://llt.msu.edu/vol13num1/call.pdf
> February 2009, Volume 13, Number 1
> p. 121
> Copyright =A9 2009, ISSN 1094-3501 121
> Call for Papers for Special Issue of LLT
> Theme: Multilateral Online Exchanges for Language and Culture Learning
> Guest Editors: Tim Lewis, Thierry Chanier, and Bonnie Youngs
> Telecollaborative partnerships for language and culture learning have
> evolved rapidly in the past decade. Recent years have witnessed a  
> number of
> multi-partner exchanges, known as Tridems, or Multidems. Multilateral
> exchanges reflect the changing needs of language learners in  
> globalized
> societies, where prolonged and intensive face-to-face contact with a  
> second
> -often geographically proximate- culture has been replaced by more  
> fleeting
> encounters with a range of world languages and cultures, which may  
> well
> take place in a virtual environment. For this special issue, we are  
> seeking
> papers that address issues of language and culture learning in  
> multilateral
> exchanges. Papers should be grounded in a theoretical framework that
> formulates research hypotheses and then seeks to confirm or  
> disconfirm them
> by following an appropriate research methodology
> (http://llt.msu.edu/resguide.html). Papers should also present data on
> actual languageand culture-learning outcomes.
> Possible topics for submissions include but are not limited to:
> * Language- and culture-learning outcomes of online exchanges between
> learners and institutions from outside traditional areas such as  
> Europe and
> North America.
> * Investigations of the sociolinguistic impact of exchanges involving
> differences of status between partner languages.
> * Evidence of learners' reflection on themselves and their own  
> culture that
> addresses questions such as the intra-cultural and intercultural
> relationships between participants and how culture is negotiated.
> * Impact of technology on language or culture learning, e.g., in  
> monomodal
> vs. multimodal exchanges, roles of synchronous vs. asynchronous  
> media, etc.
> * Studies of different types of data from multilateral intercultural
> learning partnerships that can be used to analyse the nature of online
> intercultural competence and, most importantly, to measure gains in
> intercultural competence.
> * Studies of the impact of participants' prior intercultural learning
> experiences and possible benefits of post-exchange follow-up.
> * Studies of the influence of different patterns of learning, teaching
> styles, and combinations of media use in multilateral online  
> exchanges.
> * Evidence of peer tutoring in multilateral intercultural  
> partnerships.
> * Development of learner corpora based on data from multilateral  
> exchanges.
> Please send an email of intent with a 250-word abstract by 31st May  
> 2009 to
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Otmar K. Foelsche
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