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From: Jean-Claude Bertin (universite du Havre)              <[log in to unmask]>
Date: December 10, 2010 3:09:18 AM CST
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Subject: Fw: Invitation : CALL for papers (last reminder)
Reply-To: Jean-Claude Bertin (universite du Havre)              <[log in to unmask]>

Dear colleagues,

Please find attached a Call for Papers for a special issue of the Computer-Assisted  
Language Learning Journal on "Tutoring at a Distance".
Can you please forward this message to the associations you belong to?

We thank you in advance for your prospective collaboration for this publication.

Best regards

Jean-Claude Bertin & Jean-Paul Narcy-Combes
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Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Special Issue: Tutoring at a Distance

Call for Papers

Preliminary agreement: 15 December 2010
Submission deadline:  31 January 2011
Publication date: 2011


Guest editors:
Jean-Claude BERTIN, Universite du Havre, France
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Jean-Paul NARCY-COMBES, Universite de Paris 3 La Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
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The development of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and distance learning  
environments have made it necessary to reassess the roles associated to the actors  
of traditional language teaching/learning situations. More specifically, distance  
creates an original situation insofar as such figures as 'teacher' and 'tutor'  
have to be acknowledged as two separate entities related to specific pedagogical  
functions (Bertin, Grave & Narcy-Combes, 2010).

This special issue of Computer Assisted Language Learning will address the question  
of identifying the specific features of online tutoring by providing an overview  
of established research in the field as well as reporting on the most recent areas  
of study.
These may focus for example on the nature of the interactions between the tutor  
and online language learning environments, on specific design issues, on the contribution  
of technology on pragmatic as well as ethical considerations related to online  
tutoring, and on assessing specific distant tutoring sessions or environments.

Tutoring has always been part of the educational process, and a number of questions  
can be put forward:
-	How can online tutoring maintain and/or improve individual follow up?
-	To what extent can online tutoring enhance or limit the relationship between  
learners, tutors and teachers?
-	How do teachers, tutors and learners create or build new pedagogical relations?  

-	Do traditional hierarchies between learners, tutors and teachers replicate,  
or may new hierarchies emerge or even disappear altogether within a broader cultural  
perspective of global networking/coaching?
-	How does the openness of this interactive social resource that online tutoring  
is - take into consideration the diverse and multiple learning/teaching cultures  
of the different actors?
The overall aim of the issue is to take stock of existing research in the field  
likely to guide further developments in CALL.

Papers, of around 5000 words, should be submitted electronically to one or the  
other guest editors, no later than 31 January 2011. Please use the published CALL  
guidelines at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0958-8221&linktype=44  
  when preparing your paper.


Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an intercontinental and interdisciplinary  
journal which leads the field in its dedication to all matters associated with  
the use of computers in language learning (L1 and L2), teaching and testing. It  
provides a forum to discuss the discoveries in the field and to exchange experience  
and information about existing techniques. The scope of the journal is intentionally  
wide-ranging and embraces a multitude of disciplines.

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