Bryan Smith

Arizona State University | ASU · Department of English

This paper discusses key concepts in the emerging field of technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) and provides a research agenda for moving this sub-field forward in a theoretically sound and data-driven way. We first define TMTBLT and discuss the importance of considering technological affordances and specific learning contexts...

Interview conducted by Marco Cappellini on the 17th of October, 2019.

History, Pedagogy, Data and New Directions: An Introduction to the Educational Technology Issue - Volume 39 - Trude Heift, Alison Mackey, Bryan Smith

The CALICO Journal editors attend a lot of conferences. At the XIXth International Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Research Conferencein Bruges, Belgium this year we reflected on what makes a "good" conference, whether CALL as a subdiscipline needs its own conferences, and why we should attend such conferences. Below are some thoughts (f...

Computer‐mediated intercultural exchanges, also known as telecollaboration, have been widely used in foreign language teaching for over 20 years. This entry provides an overview of the seminal work in this area as well as some of the most current studies. Underlying theoretical frameworks, research goals, and methodological considerations are addre...

Research on certain questions within SLA research requires that inferences be made about specific aspects of learners’ language knowledge or learning processes such as those surrounding attention and noticing as well as psychological constructs such as working memory capacity. Computer technology affords new avenues for capturing evidence of learne...

Though eye-tracking technology has been used in reading research for over 100 years, researchers have only recently begun to use it in studies of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). This chapter provides an overview of eye-tracking research to date, which is relevant to computer-mediated language learning contexts. We first examine some of...

Though eye-tracking technology has been used in reading research for over 100 years, researchers have only recently begun to use it in studies of computer-assisted language learning (CALL). This chapter provides an overview of eye-tracking research to date, which is relevant to computer-mediated language learning contexts. We first examine some of...

This book focuses on learner-computer interactions (LCI) in second language learning environments drawing largely on sociocultural theories of language development. It brings together a rich and varied range of theoretical discussions and applications in order to illustrate the way in which LCI can enrich our comprehension of technology-mediated co...

This article offers a capacious view of technology to suggest broad principles relating technology and language use, language teaching, and language learning. The first part of the article considers some of the ways that technological media influence contexts and forms of expression and communication. In the second part, a set of heuristic question...

Digital communication technologies both complexify and help to reveal the dynamics of human communicative activity and capacity for identity performance. Addressing current scholarship on second language use and development, this review article examines research on identity in digital settings either as a design element of educational practice or a...

The first issue of the 32nd volume of CALICO Journal marks a new beginning. This issue is the first available exclusively through Equinox Publishing (http://www.equinoxpub.com/home/journals/calico). The CALICO Journal was first published by CALICO in 1983 – which makes it the publication on CALL with the longest pedigree. The Journal appeared onlin...

Based on the principle that effective and sustainable CALL research requires multiple perspectives that emerge from empirical data collection and analysis using a mixed-method approach, the purpose of this symposium is to discuss data and elicitation methods of interaction-based research. The first part of the discussion will be dedicated to theore...

Commentaries in Honor of Robert Fischer

Studies in Honor of Robert Fischer

Colleagues' Perspectives on Robert Fischer

This study used eye tracking to explore the relationship between second-language recasts, noticing , and learning during computer-mediated communication. Learners' eye fixations were used as a measure of noticing. We examined the relationship between occurrence, number, and duration of fixations and posttest success and between the nature of the re...

This study investigated whether eye-tracking technology could be employed as a measure of noticing of corrective feedback (in the form of explicit recasts) during NS-NNS task-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC). Pairs of university-level learners of English (n = 18) engaged in a short chat interaction task with a native speaker...

It is with great pleasure that we present issue 29(3) of the CALICO Journal . It contains eight research articles, the first Spotlight article, one book review (Leakey, 2011) and one software review ( E-Tutor , an ICALL web-based courseware for German).

This study examines the linguistic complexity and lexical diversity of both overt and covert L2 output produced during synchronous written computer-mediated communication, also referred to as chat. Video enhanced chatscripts produced by university learners of German (N = 23) engaged in dyadic task-based chat interaction were coded and analyzed for...

This chapter reports on an exploratory study, which asked whether eye-tracking technology could help determine what learners attend to in an L2 SCMC task-based learning environment. Eight learners of English completed a two-way information gap with a native speaker of English. The learners’ eye movements were captured using a Tobii 1750 eye tracker...

The current study provides guidance for both junior computer-assisted language learning (CALL) researchers as they decide on the most appropriate forms and placement of scholarly activity and also for decision makers attempting to evaluate the scholarly activity of these CALL researchers in their quest for promotion and tenure. In this study, data...

The research on text-based synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC), while generally acknowledging the potential benefits afforded by the medium's capacity for extensive self-repair, has done little in the way of exploration of the nature of such text. Indeed, until quite recently, output logs have been favored almost exclusively at the e...

This study explores the relationship between scrolling, negotiated interaction, and self-initiated self-repair (SISR) in a task-based synchronous computer-mediated communi-cation (SCMC) foreign language learning environment. Pairs of adult learners of German engaged in four jigsaw tasks over the course of one university semester. Video screen captu...

This paper reports on a study of the use of self-repair among learners of German in a task-based CMC environment. The purpose of the study was two-fold. The first goal sought to establish how potential interpretations of CMC data may be very different depending on the method of data collection and evaluation employed. The second goal was to explici...

The present study builds on recent uptake research (Ellis, Basturkmen, & Loewen, 2001a, 2001b; Lyster & Ranta, 1997) by exploring the relationship between negotiated interaction, a type of focus on form episode, and learner uptake. The study explores whether a negotiation routine's complexity affects learner uptake and if this uptake affects lexica...

Research on interaction has provided important insights on how second languages may be acquired through interaction, and on how second language learners use their second language in various settings and tasks. Research into computer mediated communication (CMC) in a second language learning context has been a logical outcome of interactionist resea...

This paper reports a paired-groups experimental study, which tests the Interaction Hypothesis in a computer-mediated communicative environment. Pairs of intermediate-level nonnative speakers of English (n = 24) interacted with one another in a synchronous mode over a local area network while attempting to jointly complete jigsaw and decision-m...

This article presents a theoretical analysis of a commonly used and frequently studied technology—computer mediated communication (CMC)—to illustrate how a technology that is often undistinguished in research and practice and often considered passive and neutral in nature is indeed active and biased. We then report an exploratory study of a network...

This within-groups study examines communication strategy use among adult learners of English in a computer-mediated environment. Specifically, communication strategies employed during problem-free discourse as well as compensatory strategy use during task-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) were explored. This strategy use was also examined...

This study examines task–based, synchronous computer–mediated communication (CMC) among intermediate–level learners of English. The research specifically explores (a) whether learners engage in negotiated interaction when they encounter new lexical items, (b) whether task type has an effect on the amount of negotiation that transpires, and (c) how...