The Call for Papers is now closed. 

The Department of Language Sciences and Foreign Literatures and the Centre for Higher Education Internationalisation of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan together with the EuroCALL MALL SIG are pleased to welcome you to an international two-day symposium focusing on recent Computer-Assisted Language Learning  and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning research and future directions.

The symposium will be held at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy.
  
The symposium will focus on the latest research and practices in technology-mediated language learning and explores perspectives for effective technology integration in language teaching and learning in various educational contexts globally. The emphasis will be on the intercultural and pedagogical opportunities that technologies and what mobile devices in particular can offer.  We will also cover the latest outcomes, challenges and limitations of these in relation to language learning, also within the perspective of the internationalisation of higher education. 

The CALL/MALL Symposium, open to researchers, practitioners, teacher educators, including doctoral students, will be held over two days, and focuses on research projects in CALL and MALL, second and foreign language teaching and learning, and virtual exchanges.
 

Papers are invited on the following topics:

• Learner perspectives and perceptions of CALL/MALL
• Empirical evaluations of CALL/MALL approaches
• MALL for telecollaboration
• Virtual exchanges
• CALL and MALL task design
• Innovations in MALL
• EU projects on CALL/MALL
• Institutional curriculum innovation
• Teachers’ professional development
• CALL/MALL and VLE in the internationalisation of higher education
• CALL/MALL for inclusive learning

Proposals are invited for two conference formats:

1. Research paper
   25-minute presentations (20 minutes for presenting, 5 minutes for questions)
2. Workshop
   50-minute session involving concrete examples for classroom practice, guidelines for teachers, and resources for further development.

The conference language is English and all proposals for Papers, MALL/CALL-related European Projects and Workshops must be submitted and conducted in English.

Abstracts should be between 250-300 words, including title and basic bibliography, and must specify the conference format (research paper or workshop) for which they are being submitted. The applicant’s name, affiliation and email address should be included on a separate page. Please email the abstract to callmi2019@gmail.com

Each proposal will be subject to blind peer-review by two members of the Scientific Committee and rated according to:

• Relevance to the field and audience
• Content and originality
• Clarity and coherence of session description
• Quality of writing
   

Scientific Committee

• Pierfranca Forchini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Jonás Fouz Gonzáles, Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain
• Mirjam Hauck, The Open University, UK
• Francesca Helm, Università di Padova, Italy
• Qian Kan, The Open University, UK
• Bruce Lander, Matsuyama University, Japan
• Valentina Morgana, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Gary Motteram, University of Manchester, UK
• Amanda Murphy, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
• Prithvi Shrestha, The Open University, UK
   

Key dates

• December 17th– Call for papers announced
• February 18th – Submission deadline
• February 28th – Notification of acceptance
   

Local Università Cattolica Organising Committee

• Costanza Cucchi, Pierfranca Forchini, Elizabeth Moffatt, Valentina Morgana, Caterina Pavesi, Sonia Piotti, Francesca Seracini
   

Authors of accepted presentations may also submit a paper (5,000 words) for peer-reviewed publication. Details for this will be published on the conference website page.