The New Ecolinguistics: Learning as Languaging with Digital Technologies

  • Dongping Zheng 1 ,
  • Stephen J. Cowley 2 ,
  • Michaela Nuesser 3
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  • 1. Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu 96822, USA
  • 2. Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark, Odense 5230, Denmark
  • 3. Department of Second Language Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu 96822, USA

Published date: 26 Jan 2024

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2024 Higher Education Press

Abstract

The new ecolinguistics treats language as a part of human action. Languaging, the basis for language development, co-constitutes technologically endowed environments. The result, we argue, can enhance both second language learning and aspects of human agency. Using historical and current research, we stress skillful action and, given a special stance, how expertise is generated by drawing on languages while engaging in a range of practices. A combination of languaging, statistical learning and skillful action therefore enables technology to sustain a vast range of coordinated activities. Accordingly, we advocate for the design of technology-rich environments where people change themselves by drawing on second languages to gain skills and expertise as they use new modes of action, coordination. and collaboration.

Cite this article

Dongping Zheng , Stephen J. Cowley , Michaela Nuesser . The New Ecolinguistics: Learning as Languaging with Digital Technologies[J]. Frontiers of Digital Education, 2024 , 1(1) : 109 -119 . DOI: 10.3868/s110-009-024-0011-5

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