本书的主题为“教育技术”（Educational Technology）。共包括14篇文章，对教育技术手段的历史进行了回顾，并对当前的研究现状及方法进行了综合性评价，指出了研究中的优点和不足，并对未来的研究方向和研究中可能出现的问题提出了前瞻性看法，值得国内学者学习借鉴。

艾丽森·麦琪（Alison Mackey），美国Georgetown大学和英国Lancaster大学的双聘教授，《剑桥应用语言学年度评论》主编。研究方向：二语习得。

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1 History, Pedagogy, Data and New Directions : An Introduction to the Educational Technology Issue
Historical Developments
2 Reframing Technology's Role in Language Teaching: A Retrospective Report
3 Multilingualism and Technology: A Review of Developments in Digital Communication from Monolingualism to Idiolingualism
Pedagogical/Methodological Issues in the Use of Technologies
4 Technology, Motivation and Autonomy, and Teacher Psychology in Language Learning: Exploring the Myths and Possibilities
5 Technology and Learner Autonomy: An Argument in Favor of the Nexus of Formal and Informal Language Learning
6 World CALL: Are We Connected？
Constructing and Examining Corpora and Data Sets
7 Corpus Linguistics, Learner Corpora, and SLA: Employing Technology to Analyze Language Use
8 Recent Contributions of Data Mining to Language Learning Research
Rethinking and Expanding Current Perspectives
9 Technology and L2 Pragrnatics Learning
10 Emergent Digital Discourses: What Can We Learn from Hashtags and Digital Games to Expand Learners' Second Language Repertoire？
11 Past the Anthropocentirc: Sociocognitive Perspectives for Tech-Mediated Language Learning
12 Media and Second Dialect Acquisition
Empirical Investigations in Technology-mediated Language Learning Contexts
13 Scaling up Intervention Studies to Investigate Real-Life Foreign Language Learning in School
14 Alignment during Synchronous Video versus Written Chat L2 Interactions: A Methodological Exploration