Carol Chapelle and Technology for Language Learning: Over Forty Years of Leading the Way

Françoise Blin, Philip Hubbard

doi:10.32038/ltrq.2025.50.02

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Carol Chapelle and Technology for Language Learning: Over Forty Years of Leading the Way

Françoise Blin

Philip Hubbard

Language Teaching Research Quarterly, Volume 50, Pages 7-17, https://doi.org/10.32038/ltrq.2025.50.02

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Carol Chapelle has had a remarkable career, spanning four decades and influencing developments in applied linguistics across a range of its subfields, such as Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Language Testing and Assessment, and Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL). In this paper, we focus on her contribution to CALL by offering personal accounts of how Carol’s work has influenced us individually.

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Carol A. Chapelle; Computer Assisted Language Learning; Second Language Acquisition

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Françoise Blin

Françoise Blin (F) is Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Dublin City University, Ireland. Spanning four decades of research and practice in the domain of CALL, she has widely published in the areas of Computer Supported Collaborative Language Learning, ecological and sustainable CALL, digital literacies for language teaching and learning, and on the applications of cultural-historical activity theory and the theory of affordances to the design, implementation, and critical evaluation of technology-rich language learning environments. She was elected President of EUROCALL (2011-2017) and served as co-editor of ReCALL between 2006 and 2017.

Philip Hubbard

Philip Hubbard, PhD, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Stanford University Language Center, where he directed the English for Foreign Students Program from 2003 to 2020. A specialist in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) since the early 1980s, he has published in the areas of CALL theory, research methodology, evaluation, listening, learner training, and teacher education/professional development. His current work focuses on language teacher competencies with generative AI and technology standards for language teachers, learners, and programs. He is associate editor of the journals Computer Assisted Language Learning and Language Learning & Technology. See https://web.stanford.edu/~efs/phil/.

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Françoise Blin: Conceptualization, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review and Editing

Philip Hubbard: Conceptualization, Writing – Original Draft, Writing – Review and Editing

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