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    Call for Proposals: Journal Special Issue

    🌐  Call for Proposals – CALICO Journal Special Issue (Volume 45) Dear CALL Researchers, We are pleased to invite proposals for a Special Issue of the CALICO Journal (Volume 45), scheduled for publication in October 2028. With this call, we seek one or more guest editors to lead an issue centered on a timely and compelling topic that aligns with the journal’s scope and advances the field of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). 📋  Proposal Guidelines If you are interested in serving as a guest editor, please include the following in your proposal: 1. Name(s) and Affiliation(s) of the proposed guest editor(s) 2. Title and Focus of the Proposed Special Issue…

  • Conference

    2026 Conference Workshops

    Register Here Tuesday, July 7 Sustained Integrated Professional Development for Generative AI (GenAI–SIPD) 1:00pm – 4:00pmLeaders: Mathias Schulze and Phil Hubbard Today’s language teachers need a solid foundation in generative AI (GenAI) to use it responsibly and effectively in their classes, and they need ongoing professional development (PD) to expand on that foundation and keep current. This workshop introduces a model to accomplish these goals: GenAI sustained integrated professional development (GenAI-SIPD) (Hubbard & Schulze, 2025). Following an introduction motivating GenAI-SIPD, participants critically explore the model’s ten core knowledge and skill areas and seven guiding principles. They then work collaboratively first on a selected area and then on implementing one of…

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    Entrepreneurship SIG

    Entrepreneurship Special Interest Group (SIG) Welcome to the new Special Interest Group on the intersection of technology education and business. Our interest group is intended to bring together CALICO members with interest in cooperating with language technology businesses. We hope to provide members with a meaningful way to get involved and a forum for exchanging ideas. The activities of this SIG are planned by our members and elected officers. Chair: Hope Anderson (hope@teachingsolved.com) Associate Chair: Will Jordan-Cooley (will@pangea.chat)

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    CALICO 2026

    Language with a Good Heart: Nurturing Human Connections in CALL July 7 – 11, 2026Miami University, Oxford, Ohio We invite attendees to explore this year’s theme “Language With a Good Heart: Nurturing Human Connections in CALL,” with a consideration of the evolving landscape of language and technology and the potential of human interactions afforded by technology. Possible thematic topics to be presented, discussed, and contemplated this year include, but are not limited to: We are excited to meet you in Oxford, Ohio at Miami University! CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONFERENCE PROGRAM GENERAL INFORMATION Keynote Speakers Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan  Dr. Soroush Sabbaghan is an Associate Professor and Educational Leader in Residence for Generative AI…

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    Call for Proposals: CALICO Book Series, Spring 2026

    CALICO is now soliciting proposals for the next volume in the Advances in CALL Research and Practice book series to be published in Spring 2026. The volume may be a single-authored monograph or edited volume and may treat any topic related to the field of CALL. Proposals should include the following information: Proposals should be submitted as a Word document to steph.link@okstate.edu no later than September 15, 2023. Final chapters must be submitted to Equinox no later than August 30, 2025. You can find more information about the series here: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/advances-call-research-practice/ The 2026 volume will be the tenth book in the new series. Previous volumes include: 2016 Landmarks in CALL…

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    Graduate Student SIG Newsletter Spring 2021

    Our graduate student special interest group chair has been hard at work putting together events for our graduate students, like the panel in January on alternate career paths for PhDs.  She’s also produced this very informative newsletter that should be of interest to all CALICO members.   Grad Student SIG – Newletter – Issue 6 – February, 2021

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    Call for Chapter Proposals, Book Series

    CALICO Book Series: Advances in CALL Research and Practice (https://calico.org/book-series/) CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS 2022 CALICO Book Title: IDENTITY, MULTILINGUALISM, AND CALL Chapter Proposals due – August 1, 2020Guest Editor: Liudmila Klimanova, Ph.D. Interest in digital multilingual identity in the fields of applied linguistics and language education has been growing exponentially in recent years, encompassing new variables and realities of life, such as translanguaging, heightened multilingualism, linguistic superdiversity, multimodal computer-mediated communication, and even social justice and forensics (e.g., Chiang & Grant, 2018; Grant & Macleod, 2016). New theoretical assumptions and recent global challenges urge us to problematize the construct of virtual identity (Kramsch, 2009) in the face of globalization, increased…