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This study explores the perceptions of learners and instructors regarding mobile learning tasks, comparing WhatsApp and Zoom as platforms for facilitating second language (L2) speaking and overall language skills. Grounded in sociointeractionist theories of second language acquisition (SLA), the research involved novice-high Spanish learners who engaged in weekly Communication Activities via WhatsApp text messaging or Zoom video calls. Findings indicate that while both platforms provided valuable opportunities for language practice outside the classroom, participants preferred face-to-face interactions via Zoom. Despite the familiarity with text messaging, WhatsApp was less favored due to logistical challenges,...

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Synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) offers second/foreign language (L2/FL) learners' interactional environments that are unique to face-to-face (F2F) communication. Such modes have the potential to facilitate better learning outcomes under certain conditions. The aim of this study was to compare the capacity of two online modes – text chat and voice chat – to promote uptake of targeted vocabulary in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom setting. Three distinct tasks (opinion exchange, dictogloss, problem-solving task) were used to measure the effectiveness of both modes to facilitate immediate and delayed uptake compared to F2F communication. The study investigated: (1) how task design and communication mode affected EFL uptake; (2) the effect time allocation had; and (3) the degree to which task perceptions...

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Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in language education becomes more popular. This revolutionary technology is regarded as a promising tool to assist language learning environments by empowering automatic feedback, intelligent tutoring, and personalization. While designing Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning (ICALL) environments, educators have followed the First Principles of Instruction (FPI), including problem-centered, activation, demonstration, application, and integration. These instructional design principles...

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Globalization and networking technologies have transformed the contexts, means, and uses of foreign language learning. The Internet offers a vast array of texts, ?lms, music, news, information, pedagogical resources, sounds, and images from around the world as well as unprecedented opportunities for direct communication with native speakers in real time. However, the very technology that delivers the sematerials and interactions can produce subtle mediational effects that can influence how learners evaluate and interpret them. Focusing first on technological mediation broadly, and then on the specific ccontext of desktop videoconferencing in a telecollaboration project, this article outlines the benefits and the potential pitfalls that computer mediation presents for the learning of languages and cultures. Specific attention is given...

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Este artículo constituye una revisión bibliográfica sobre la relación entre Tecnología y Enseñanza de Lenguas, con especial atención sobre la Enseñanza Asistida por Ordenador (ELAO)?Computer Assited Language Learning (CALL), en inglés?, en un momento de transformación de este ámbito. Primero, haremos un recorrido desde los orígenes de la ELAO y analizaremos su evolución hasta hoy. A continuación, estudiaremos los temas de actualidad referentes a la ELAO, especialmente el aprendizaje móvil de lenguas, el Open Courseware, los Cursos Masivos Abiertos en línea (MOOC) de lenguas, los Entornos Virtuales de Aprendizaje, la gamificación, el uso de las redes sociales y el Aprendizaje combinado (Blended Learning). Finalmente...

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This mixed-methods study investigates the use of synchronous video computer-mediated communication (SVCMC) in a U.S. university?s Spanish-as-a-foreign-language curriculum. Using the SVCMC platform TalkAbroad, the university?s Spanish program required second-year students to participate in five, 30-minute, SVCMC conversations with Spanish first language (L1) speakers. Students then reflected on their SVCMC conversations by replaying the recorded audio from those sessions and transcribing passages of their conversations. Using an interactionist perspective, this research explores the utility of: (1) the SVCMC conversations, and (2) the subsequent listening/transcription activity by examining students? reported noticing of linguistic items (e.g. L1 speaker vocabulary, grammar, etc.). Additionally, we report students? general perceptions...

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This article presents the Spanish version of the Computer-Assisted Listening and Speaking Tutor (CALST), an online platform that can be used to complement pronunciation training in the classroom. The Spanish CALST offers listening, speaking, and spelling exercises for Northern-Central Peninsular Spanish as an L2. Exercises are tailored by an automatic comparison with the learner?s native language based on a database of phonetically specified phoneme inventories for over 500 languages, with the result that learners with different L1s are exposed to different exercises adapted to their...

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