Call for Papers – C6: TELL

ICCE 2024 Sub-Conference on Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)

This sub-conference focuses on advances and emerging trends in Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL). The advancements in technology, especially in generative artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR), have transformed the way we learn languages and provided new opportunities for innovative learning design and teaching practices. The TELL sub-conference invites submissions on the rationale, theories, pedagogies, and best practices for the use of digital technologies to enhance first/second/foreign/additional language teaching and learning. Researchers investigating theoretically underpinned innovative practices to enhance language instruction by integrating established and emerging technologies are strongly encouraged to submit their work to the TELL sub-conference. The goals of the TELL sub-conference are to engage scholars, researchers, and practitioners in sharing and discussing their latest research in the use of technology in first/second/foreign/additional language education, share insights into the design, development, evaluation, and enhancement of technology enhanced language learning environments, and provide directions for future research collaborations and ongoing improvement of TELL practices. We welcome high quality conceptual and theoretical as well as empirical contributions in relation to accomplished research or work in progress under the sub-conference areas. The scope of the TELL sub-conference includes but is not limited to the following topics:

Theoretical foundations and perspectives of TELL

  • Critical approaches to TELL
  • Emerging theories in TELL
  • Historical investigations of TELL
  • Research methodologies in TELL
  • Socio-cultural perspectives related to TELL, such as improving intercultural and interdisciplinary competence through TELL and instructors’ and learners’ expectations and readiness to use TELL

Digital pedagogy and instructional design principles in TELL

  • Innovative pedagogical approaches in TELL practice
  • Established and emerging TELL tools, APPs, and platforms and their applications for TELL
  • Language learning in immersive and interactive environments supported by AR, VR, and/or MR
  • Game-based language learning
  • Natural Language Processing and Corpora in language learning
  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning for language instruction
  • Language learning design

Educational psychology implications for TELL

  • Cognitive and learning sciences
  • Self-efficacy and motivation
  • Learner autonomy and self-regulated learning
  • Emotional and affective factors in language learning

Professional development of language teachers

  • Teachers’ technological, pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK) in promoting TELL
  • Approaches to teacher development in TELL

Content development and management for TELL

  • Flipped classroom, blended/hybrid language learning
  • TELL in open, distance, and flexible learning contexts
  • TELL in informal learning environments (outside the formal classroom)
  • TELL in workplace and adult learning settings

Assessment and evaluation of TELL

  • Assessing multiliteracies in TELL
  • History, merits, and drawbacks of technology enhanced assessment
  • Ethical considerations in the assessment process

Supporting the acquisition of less widely taught languages, inclusive education , and sustainability through TELL

  • Effects of multimodal resources on learning an additional language
  • Implementations of TELL to support students with special needs
  • TELL for social justice and sustainability
  • TELL in refugee and migrant education
  • Ensuring sustainability of TELL practices in language education

Program Committee