linguistics

New ReCALL journal Impact Factor 2024

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Editors-in-Chief: Alex Boulton Université de Lorraine, France and Pascual Pérez-Paredes Universidad de Murcia, Spain ReCALL is the journal of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL). It is published by Cambridge University Press. It seeks to fulfil the stated aims of EUROCALL as a whole, i.e. to encourage the use of technology for the learning and teaching of languages … Read more

There are infinite ways of using language

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Epistemological relativity, for an ELT professional, means that one acceptsthat there are infinite ways of using language and that differences do notautomatically call for judgmental evaluation. (Leung, 2005: p. 138) Leung, C. (2005). Convivial communication: Recontextualizing communicative competence. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 15(2), 119-144. Check other quotations here.

Acquiring text varities

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One of the most important goals of formal schooling is teaching text varieties that might not be acquired outside of school […] Early in school, children learn to read books of many different types, including fictional stories, historical accounts of past events, and descriptions of natural phenomena. These varieties rely on different linguistic structures and … Read more

TAALES 2.2 is out : automatic analysis of lexical sophistication, Windows and Mac

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From the TAALES website: Kyle, K. & Crossley, S. A. (2015). Automatically assessing lexical sophistication: Indices, tools, findings, and application. TESOL Quarterly 49(4), pp. 757-786. doi: 10.1002/tesq.194 TAALES is a tool that measures over 400 classic and new indices of lexical sophistication, and includes indices related to a wide range of sub-constructs. TAALES indices have … Read more