The theme of the 2022 Technology for Second Language Learning (TSLL) Conference, “Learning English Online: Research for Course Design,” will provide a forum for researchers, teachers, and course developers to explore the past, present, and future contributions of research to the design and evaluation of online learning in English and other languages. Abstracts proposing papers related to the theme are invited for a conference to be held in hybrid format at Iowa State University on October 14-15, 2022.
Topics of particular interest include the following:
- Design and evaluation of tasks that take advantage of specific language-related affordances of technology such as access to databases, multimedia production, speech recognition, natural language processing, biometrics, and virtual reality for English and other languages
- Design and evaluation of tasks and projects that prompt students to reflect on learning, provide scaffolding for course projects, and require search, analysis, and evaluation of online materials
- Design and evaluation of special-purpose databases of particular historical content, genres of language use, or other content to be used as data for course assignments
- Theory, research, and design for online courses in language teacher education
- Theoretical perspectives and research needed for making principled course design decisions such as the ideal distribution of synchronous and asynchronous activity in online learning
- Research reporting results from qualitative and quantitative investigations of online learning that can guide future planning such as design for effective feedback practices, learner collaboration, teacher and student workloads, and teacher presence in online language teaching
The site for submissions will be available here on April 15, and it will close on May 31, 2022. Decisions on submissions will be returned by July 15, 2022.
