Professor Liudmila Klimanova (Russian & Slavic Studies) was awarded the 2021 Dorothy Chun Award for Best Article in Language Learning & Technology Journal for her recent publication, “The evolution of identity research in CALL: From scripted chatrooms to engaged construction of the digital self” (Language Learning & Technology, 24(3), 186–204).
The Dorothy Chun award is given to the best journal article published in Language Learning & Technology in 2021. The topic of the selected article highlights innovative Computer Assisted Language Learning research that may benefit a broad scope of language learners. Prof. Klimanova’s article how identity research has evolved in the past 30 years; she presents critical issues related to identity and outlines three historical periods that identify conceptual shifts over the years. These periods include: the communicative turn (roughly from 1995-2000), the social and intercultural turns (2000-2010) and the critical and multilingual turns (2010-2020). One goal of her article is to provide ways to merge identity studies with second language acquisition. The Dorothy Chun’s award committee announced the award on February 7. 2022.
Congratulations to Prof. Klimanova on this special recognition!
The full announcement can be found on the LL&T journal website - https://www.lltjournal.org/dorothy-chun-award/