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Digital-gaming Trajectories and Second Language Development

Kyle W. Scholz, Mathias Schulze

Recent research in digital game-based language learning has been encouraging, yet it would benefit from research methods that focus on the gaming processes and second language development (Larsen-Freeman, 2015) rather than learner/player reflection or individuals' beliefs about the validity of gameplay. This paper suggests approaching digital game-based language learning through complex adaptive systems research (Larsen-Freeman & Cameron, 2008a) and employing Dörnyei’s (2014) retrodictive qualitative modeling to capture the complex synchronic and diachronic variability of the learners and their individual nonlinear gaming trajectories with requisite data density and over a considerable period of time.

Closing global achievement gaps in MOOCs

René F. Kizilcec, Andrew J. Saltarelli, Justin Reich, Geoffrey L. Cohen

Advocates for free massive open online courses (MOOCs) have heralded them as vehicles for democratizing education and bridging divides within and across countries. Judged by completion rates, MOOCs do not spread benefits equitably across global regions. This paper discusses field experiments with interventions that targeted social identity threat and caused substantial improvements in MOOC persistence and completion rates among learners in less developed countries, eliminating the global achievement gap.

Grammarly：我的私人语法老师

Grammarly通过人工智能为用户的内容书写提供帮助，包括拼写校正（Spell Checking），语境分析下的词汇应用纠正（Contextual Spelling Check），语法规则纠正（Grammar），标点符号纠正（Punctuation），句式架构纠正（Sentence Structure）等基础功能，在高级功能中，你还可以享用文章类型预判（Document Type，可根据不同类型的文章进行校对），文章原创性检查（Plagiarism），单词推荐（Vocabulary enhancement）以及文章校对服务（Proofreading，邀请专业人士为你的文章找问题，需要另花钱）。

Robosys用“张小盒”破局儿童教育陪伴机器人市场

张小盒机器人身高仅22厘米，有着类肌肤材质及17种动态表情，同时具有头部、手臂和底盘运动的全套运动能力，并且还具备了桌面避障及桌边防掉崖能力。它搭载了人工智能操作系统，拥有智能语音语义交互、辅助英语学习、督促习惯养成以及益智休闲娱乐等多项功能。

AR、VR、MR，新兴科技在教育培训领域有哪些可能的应用场景？

此文介绍了增强现实、虚拟现实、混合现实在教育训练上的应用, 来协助大家了解这些新兴科技的无穷潜力及魅力，有助于大家思考如何运用这些科技。

作为舶来品，英文分级阅读在国内的本土化之路

在美国的中小学，阅读是一门独立的课程，分级阅读理念早已成为常规教学体系的一部分，在学校得到广泛认可。由于文化背景、语言体系的差异，分级阅读体系作为舶来品并不能直接应用，此文介绍了国内英文分级阅读从业者面临的本土化挑战。

A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education

by David F. Labaree

This books explains why America has become the most successful and sought-after source of learning in the world, even though higher education in the U.S. has been a total mess. Detailing American higher education’s unusual struggle for survival in a free market that never guaranteed its place in society—a fact that seemed to doom it in its early days in the nineteenth century, the author tells a lively story of the entrepreneurial spirit that drove American higher education to become the best.

WorldCALL: Sustainability and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching)

by Ana María Gimeno Sanz (Editor), Mike Levy (Editor), Françoise Blin (Editor), David Barr (Editor)

This volume focuses on computer- and digitally-assisted language learning in all of its forms: technology-enhanced language learning, network-based language learning, mobile-assisted language learning and so on, in close relation to the topic of sustainability. It explores how these technologies and techniques be implemented in a sustainable and repeatable way.

CALL in Context
XVIIIth International CALL Research Conference

July 7-9, 2017, UC Berkeley

This conference focuses on the role of technology in the language learning, teaching and testing process, specifically the role of the local context of the learner:

ASU GSV Summit 2018

April 16-18, 2018
San Diego, CA, USA

The ASU + GSV Summit is an annual conference for everyone who matters in the learning and talent innovation community. It's a chance to be seen and heard by people who want to change the world, whether you want to raise funds for your startup, meet potential employees or connect with others to share ideas.

GLoCALL 2018 Conference & 15th ChinaCALL Conference 2018

August 16th- 18th, 2018 Suzhou, China

Jointly sponsored by China Computer-Assisted Language Learning Association (ChinaCALL), Asia-Pacific Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (APACALL) , Pacific Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (PacCALL), and hosted by School of Online and Continuing Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University and the Language Centre, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, the conference aims to share knowledge, skills, and ideas on the integration of technologies and language learning in the forms of workshops, plenary sessions, paper presentations, symposia and colloquiums.