ReCALL 34 (1) now online!

 

Note from the ReCALL Editor in Chief
Prof. Alex Boulton

 

Dear ReCALL readers,

 

Nobody expected an international lockdown in 2020, much less for it to continue into 2021; I certainly did not expect to be writing of this again for January 2022. As many of us have got used to teaching from home, so research in the classroom has diminished, giving way to online or hybrid formats that have generated considerable food for thought, as well as research output. Much of this however has been ad hoc, comparing previous course formats against current constraints, with computers and other technology largely given over to this online condition rather than pushing the boundaries of research in CALL. In terms of submissions to ReCALL, the results have been three-fold: (a) a somewhat higher rejection rate; (b) a slightly slower time from submission to acceptance, as reviewers have been more difficult to find; (c) a delay in accepted papers being assigned to an issue – although they are of course available online as soon as they are ready (see FirstView articles). This last point has yet to really be felt, but to pre-empt future delays we have decided to increase the number of papers in each issue. Assuming the rate of submissions returns to pre-Covid levels, this will allow us to catch up with the backlog, and make the situation a little more comfortable for special issues in the future. Therefore, this issue is slightly bigger than usual, with eight papers in total, but as fascinating as always! 



In other news, Cambridge University Press instigated a new prize for the ‘best’ ReCALL paper published in the preceding year (issues 32.3 to 33.2), though ‘best’ is of course a delicate question. The editors drew up a shortlist of two papers from each issue to be voted on by the full editorial board, the prize this year being awarded to Christine Appel and Joan-Tomàs Pujolà for their paper in issue 33.2 titled “Designing speaking interaction in LMOOCs: An eTandem approach” – congratulations to them!



Also, many of you will have seen the call for papers for a ReCALL special issue on Replication in CALL to be guest edited by Cornelia Tschichold (Swansea University, UK). The deadline for submission of full papers is 15th May 2022, but do please get in touch with her if you have any questions. The issue itself is due out as ReCALL 35.2 in May 2023.



I hope you enjoy our new publication, and keep up the good work in CALL as well as your health wherever you may be around the world.

 

Alex

 

Our latest publications
Volume 34 - Issue 1 - January 2022

 

Editorial
Alex Boulton

Grammar instruction through multinational telecollaboration for pre-service teachers 
Aleksandra Wach, De Zhang, Kristen Nichols-Besel

Exploring teachers’ professional development through participation in virtual exchange
Robert O’Dowd, Melinda Dooly

Pedagogical benefits of Chinese-American virtual exchange: A study of student perceptions
Han Luo, Chunsheng Yang

An editable learner model for text recommendation for language learning
John S. Y. Lee

Mobile-assisted vocabulary learning: Investigating receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge of Chinese EFL learners
Yan Li, Christoph A. Hafner

An investigation of machine translation output quality and the influencing factors of source texts
Sangmin-Michelle Lee

Developing students’ linguistic and digital literacy skills through the use of multimedia presentations
Baohua Yu, Artem Zadorozhnyy

Developing in-service teachers’ pedagogical knowledge of CALL through project-oriented tasks: The case of an online professional development course
Fatemeh Nami


Enjoy your reading!
The ReCALL Editorial Team