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Language-Learner Computer Interactions: Theory, methodology and CALL applicationsEdited by Catherine Caws and Marie-Josée Hamel
[Language Studies, Science and Engineering 2] 2016
► pp. 65–87
We conceptualize learner-computer interactions in CALL as a complex adaptive system. Writing from a complexity-theoretical understanding of second language development, we sketch a cognate research paradigm, discuss the characteristics of these interactions as complex adaptive systems. From these characteristics, recent literature on second language development and CALL, we discuss mixed-method methodologies that have the potential to capture the complexity of the non-linear processes of learner-computer interactions in CALL.
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