Eurocall News

TOGETHER IN 2022! EUROCALL in Iceland. It is nearly that time of year again! We look forward to welcoming all of you to the EUROCALL 2022 conference held (virtually) in Iceland. EUROCALL 2022 kicks off on Wednesday 17th August 2022.  It is preceded by an online project event, the LARA (Learning and Reading Assistant) Symposium, on 16th August to introduce new ways of creating language learning content for reading via crowdsourcing techniques and extracting learner data from the platform. This separate online event will be hosted by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in cooperation with the University of Geneva. More conference information can be [...]

EUROCALL 2022 AGM - Save the date! A reminder to all Eurocall Members!  You are invited to the EUROCALL Annual General Meeting. Details of the meeting are listed below: Where: online (access via the conference Whova app) When: 18th August 2022 at 4.45pm (Iceland), 5.45pm (UK), 6.45pm (CET) Access to the online AGM will be available via the Whova platform. We hope you will be able to join the AGM meeting. Minutes of our previous AGM meetings can be accessed in the Members’ area of the EUROCALL website under the Documents tab. We look forward to seeing you there. [...]

2022 EARLY BIRD EXTENDED The early bird deadline for EUROCALL 2022 has been extended!  Deadline for early bird is now 15th JUNE 2022. To register for the 2022 conference please visit the event website here: https://vigdis.hi.is/en/events/eurocall-2022/  All those who register must be a member of EUROCALL or a sister organisation (JALTCALL, CALICO).

International conference  Digital Citizenship, Digital Wilds and Language Learning & Teaching 24-25 November 2022 University of Salzburg (AT) Participation free of charge Conference languages: English, Français and Deutch https://linguanum.sciencesconf.org Plenary sessions        - Steven L. Thorne (Ph.D., UC Berkeley), Professor, Portland State University (USA) Rewilding language education: Interfacing classrooms with the world -  Christiane Lütge (Professor, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany) Revisiting cultural and global learning? The impact of digital citizenship on foreign language education This event is organised within the framework of the Lingu@numproject, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, in cooperation with the ECML of the Council of Europe and the [...]

Teacher Outreach Event 2022 announcement! As most teachers are on school holidays in August we have decided to run this event on a Saturday in September to make it easier for our target audience to attend and contribute. We look forward to welcoming you on all on Saturday 24th September 2022. You can find a schedule for the event here: https://sites.google.com/eurocall-languages.org/teacheroutreach/home   For any information, or to express interest in this event, please contact the EUROCALL Secretary - Toni Patton at t.patton@ulster.ac.uk You can keep up to date with all EUROCALL news via our social media pages and EUROCAL website. [...]

On behalf of the EUROCALL family we want to express our solidarity with our colleagues in Ukraine and Russia who are currently suffering. Our hearts go out to you and all those close to you.  -The EUROCALL Executive Committee 2022

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 [...]