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Multilingual Computer Assisted Language Learning

Multilingual Computer Assisted Language Learning

Judith Buendgens-Kosten | Daniela Elsner

(2018)

Abstract

Recent developments in education, such as the increasing linguistic diversity in school populations and the digital revolution which has led to new ways of being, learning and socialising, have brought about fresh challenges and opportunities. In response, this book shows how technology enriches multilingual language learning, as well as how multilingual practices enrich computer assisted language learning (CALL) by bringing together two, thus far distinct, fields of research: CALL and multilingual approaches to language learning. The collection includes contributions from researchers and practitioners from three continents to illustrate how native languages, previously studied languages, heritage languages or dialects are activated through technology in formal and informal learning situations. The studies in this book showcase multilingual language use in chat rooms, computer games, digital stories, ebook apps, online texts and telecollaboration/virtual exchange via interactive whiteboards. This volume will be of interest to researchers interested in language learning and teaching and to practitioners looking for support in seizing the opportunities presented by the multilingual, digital classroom.


Judith Buendgens-Kosten is Professor-pro-tem in the Department of English and American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research focuses on CALL in multilingual contexts, language learning with bi- and multilingual media, game-based language learning, multilingual practices in language learning, and dual language books.

Daniela Elsner is Professor of foreign language learning and teaching and Director of the Academy of Teacher Education and Research at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research focuses on early language learning, bi- and multilingual practices in language learning, multiliteracies, and higher education teaching. 


This inspiring volume sets the stage for a radical shift in language learning pedagogy. The rich collection of studies draws on a diverse range of multimodal digital technologies to illustrate their potential for establishing exciting multilingual learning environments. MCALL has arrived – a must-read for teachers, teacher educators and researchers everywhere!


Following ‘the multilingual turn’ in SLA and bilingual education approaches, Buendgens-Kosten and Elsner argue cogently for the multicompetences of learners to be acknowledged in CALL. They coin ‘MCALL’ to foreground the pluralism that best reflects the multilingual realities of individual learners, groups and materials. These realities are further highlighted in this collection that shows the breadth of technologies, their affordances and constraints, applied to facilitate the needs and competences of different groups of language learners.


This inspirational and timely volume demonstrates that we have finally reached a tipping point with respect to the impact of digital technologies on education. In these pages we see the immense potential of new technologies to promote not only learner autonomy but also collaborative learning of languages and academic content both within the classroom and across the globe.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/BUENDG1480 iv
Contents v
Contributors vii
Multilingual CALL: Introduction xi
Part 1 Multiliteracies and MCALL 1
1 The Multiple Languages of Digital Communication 3
2 Learnscaping: Creating Next-Gen Learning Environments for Pluriliteracies Growth 18
Part 2 Multilingual Texts 39
3 ‘I like the character, weil er so richtig funny ist’: Reading Story Apps in the Primary EFL Classroom 41
4 Awareness of Multilingual Resources: EFL Primary Students’ Receptive Code-Switching during Collaborative Reading 59
5 This is How I Say It! Discourse with Tablets among Multilingual Learners 78
6 Über die Grenzen des einsprachigen Habitus: Application of Computer Assisted Language Learning through Home Language Content in Secondary Level Classrooms 95
7 Playful Plurilingualism?Exploring Language(s) with the Multilingual Serious Game MElang-E 115
Part 3 Intercomprehension and CALL 133
8 (A) CALL for Slavic Intercomprehension: The Promotion of Minority Languages in the Modern Foreign Language Classroom 135
9 When Non-Romance Languages Break the Linguistic Contract in Romance Languages Chat Rooms: Theoretical Consequences for Studies on Intercomprehension 151
Part 4 Multilingual Online Exchange and Telecollaboration 169
10 Developing Plurilingual Competence in the EFL Primary Classroom through Telecollaboration 171
11 Advanced Language Learners as Autonomous Language Users on Facebook 191
Part 5 MCALL and Professional Development of Teachers 211
12 Multilingual Digital Translanguaging and Storying with New Zealand Pasifika Learners 213
13 The Use of Teacher Trainees’ Own and Peer Videos for the Introduction of Multilingual-Sensitive Teaching Approaches in Pre-Service Teacher Training Classes 233
Concluding Remarks 253
Learning in Multilingually and Digitally Mediated Spaces: The MCALL Approach 255
Index 263