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ReCALL Special Issue: Call for Articles

ReCALL, founded in 1990 and published by Cambridge University Press since 2000, has hitherto published two issues per year. From 2007 this will increase to three issues per year, with the opportunity to devote the extra issue to a specific area of research within CALL. The first of these special issues, to be published in September 2007, will focus on the role of corpora in language learning and teaching.

Initially developed as a resource for linguistic research, the potential of corpora in electronic form as a resource for language learning and teaching was quickly  recognized. This has led to the emergence of a new area of research within CALL, starting in the 1980s, as researchers explore how corpora can influence not only what language is taught, but also how it is taught. Written and spoken corpora, and more recently multimodal corpora, form the basis for research on their role in language learning in both general and more specialized contexts. In such a rapidly evolving environment, there is a need for research, both theoretical and applied, on how this new resource can be integrated into the language-learning environment.

This issue of ReCALL will include articles (maximum 8,000 words) which address aspects of the integration of corpus data in language learning. Topics may include those listed below, but articles on other aspects of corpora and language learning are also welcome.

Articles should be submitted electronically to June Thompson, d.j.thompson@hull.ac.uk, by 31st January 2007, in accordance with the documentation at http://www.eurocall-languages.org/recall/contribnotes.html. 

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