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Upcoming event: The EUROCALL Spring Festival - 29th April 2023, 9am -5pm (UK time), online, cost 30 Euros Join us for a day of workshops and talks to help you tackle the challenges and grasp the opportunities associated with developments in digital technology post-pandemic. Our programme will include sector-leading speakers from the global EUROCALL community on topics such as: The latest tools and their pedagogic uses in language learning and teaching [...]

Save the Date! The EUROCALL Spring Festival - 29th April 2023, 9am -5pm (UK time), online Registration fee: 30 Euros  **limited spaces will be available** Join us for a day of workshops and talks to help you tackle the challenges and grasp the opportunities associated with developments in digital technology post-pandemic. Our programme will include sector-leading speakers from the global EUROCALL community on topics such as: The latest tools and their [...]

The post of EUROCALL Webmaster is an unpaid post; however this is your opportunity to take a leading role in shaping the online identity of EUROCALL now and for the future. The purpose of the post is to take a leadership role on web management and to develop/maintain the EUROCALL website in response to requests from the EUROCALL Administrator, acting on behalf of and as co-opted member of the [...]

EUROCALL 2022 Short Papers The short papers from EUROCALL 2022 edited by Arnbjörnsdóttir, Bédi, Bradley, Friðriksdóttir, Garðarsdóttir, Thouësny, and Whelpton are now published. Enjoy your reading! #openaccess #publication @EurocallLang @eurocall2022 You can find the short papers here: https://research-publishing.net/book?10.14705/rpnet.2022.61.9782383720157

EUROCALL 2023: CALL for all languages First call for papers   Submission deadline for EUROCALL 2022: 15 February 2023 The focus of this year’s EUROCALL conference is on inclusiveness of all languages, which is reflected in the main conference theme “CALL for all languages”. We particularly welcome papers that focus on supporting and promoting indigenous, endangered, and less commonly spoken languages, but themes related to other languages and language [...]

Teacher Outreach Event 2022 - POSTPONED Many of you will be aware that the UK is currently facing many challenges, the most recent of which is of course the funeral arrangements for HRM Queen Elizabeth II. In the light of the additional Bank Holiday declared for the 19th September 2022 which impacts upon our capacity to process registrations in time for the planned event date,  we have decided to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]