Social CALL The XX^th International CALL Research Conference

Awards

Selected plenary papers

Since 2015, the CALL Research conference has rewarded the best paper submissions as selected plenaries. In 2015, the selected plenaries were Shona Whyte, Preet Hiradhar and Masatoshi Sato. In 2017 Huifen Lin, Carolin Fuchs, and Liliana Cuesta Medina & Mauricio Buitrago Ropero delivered a selected plenary.

Selected plenaries at CALL 2018 were:

• Maria Bortoluzzi & Ivana Marenz: “Finding, sharing and re-using resources: metadata for teacher lifelong learning”
• Ben De Meester, Sven Lieber, Anastasia Dimou, Ruben Verborgh, & Erik Mannens: “Interoperable User Tracking Logs using Linked Data for improved Learning Analytics”
• Qing Ma & Lixun Wang: “The role of peer feedback on the quality of open wiki writing in an EAP context”

Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing Award

The best presentation by a PhD student receives the Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing Award, in memory of our friend and colleague who passed away in the tragic event of Flight MH17.

Ufuk Balaman won the first Jaclyn Ng Shi Ing award in 2015. Jorge Eduardo Pineda Hoyos received the award in 2017. The 2018 award went to Anna Nicolaou with a paper entitled “Expanding a telecollaborative project through social entrepreneurship”.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Finally, the Programme Committee of the CALL Research Conferences grants its Lifetime Achievement Award to colleagues who have been contributing in an exceptional and original way to the CALL community. The first Lifetime Achievement Award went to Claire Bradin Siskin in 2017.

The 2018 the Lifetime Achievement Award went to Phil Hubbard. The jury was impressed by his frequently cited publications, his highly appreciated presentations at conferences worldwide, his service to the CALL community, his role as associate editor of Computer Assisted Language Learning and his relentless support and guidance for PhD students and younger researchers in the field.