Vol. 2 in the Language Studies, Science and Engineering (LSSE) series. As of January 2019, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributor biographies

Chapter 1: Cutting-edge theories and techniques for LCI in the context of CALL / Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel

Part I. Frameworks guiding the research

Chapter 2: CALL ergonomics revisited / Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel

Chapter 3: The theory of affordances / Françoise Blin

Chapter 4: CALL theory: Complex adaptive systems / Mathias Schulze and Kyle Scholz

Chapter 5: CALL design and research: Taking a micro and macro view / Mike Levy and Catherine Caws

Part II: Data and elicitation technologies and techniques

Chapter 6: Learner personas and the effects of instructional scaffolding on working behaviour and linguistic performance / Trude Heift

Chapter 7: Video screen capture to document and scaffold the L2 writing process / Marie-Josée Hamel and Jérémie Séror

Chapter 8: Using eye-tracking technology to explore online learner interactions / Ursula Stickler, Bryan Smith and Lijing Shi

Chapter 9: Analysing multimodal resources in pedagogical online exchanges: Methodological issues and challenges / Cathy Cohen and Nicolas Guichon

Chapter 10: A scientific methodology for researching CALL interaction data: Multimodal Learning and Teaching Corpora / Thierry Chanier and Ciara R. Wigham

Afterword

Engineering conditions of possibility in technology-enhanced language learning / Steven L. Thorne

Author index

Subject index

"This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can enrich our comprehension of technology-mediated communication, hence enhancing learners’ digital literacy skills. The book is based on the premise that, in order to fully understand the nature of language and literacy development in digital spaces, researchers and practitioners in linguistics, sciences and engineering need to borrow from each others’ theoretical and practical toolkits. In light of this premise, themes include such aspects as educational ergonomics, affordances, complex systems learning, learner personas and corpora, while also describing such data collecting tools as video screen capture devices, eye-tracking or intelligent learning tutoring systems. The book should be of interest to applied linguists working in CALL, language educators and professionals working in education, as well as computer scientists and engineers wanting to expand their work into the analysis of human/learner interactions with technology communication devices with a view to improving or (re)developing learning and communication instruments." (Publisher's Website)