Paradigme(s) émergent(s) autour des apprentissages collectifs médiatisés en langues

Abstract

The evolution of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is the subject of many studies. We will discuss the influence of cognitive sciences and more specifically the distributed cognition paradigm and the latest developments in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). After a review of the discussions carried out in these fields, we will point out their repercussions on CALL, by focusing on current literature in English, more abundant than French literature is at the time. Some of the questions we will try to elucidate are the following: how do the various trends in CALL respond to the discussions about the non-dissociability of social and cultural (in particular technological) properties in learning and cognition? What do the current changes in CALL tell us of relevance to this approach? Which would be its potential on the theoretical and methodological discussions on the field of computer mediated language learning?

Keywords

• CSCL
• CALL
• mediation
• cognitive sciences