Moving a step further from integrative CALL. What's to come?

This paper reflects upon the evolution of technology-enhanced language learning throughout the past two decades based on the author’s own experience and how Information and Communications Technologies have played a prominent role on how language teaching pedagogies have evolved alongside the technologies themselves. Reference is made to the milestones that have marked the evolution of computerassisted language learning (CALL) and how future trends are developing. The author discusses her vision of CALL and develops the concept of “atomised CALL”, a theory first introduced in 2013. Atomised CALL describes the field of CALL from 2010 onwards, i.e. from Mark Warschauer’s definition of “integrative CALL”. In relation to Bax’s theory about the “normalisation” of CALL, the author defends that, as long as technology continues to evolve and new gadgets appear on the market, there will always be a place for CALL developers and authors to find the optimum way of pedagogically exploiting these forever-emerging technological developments.Ana Gimeno-Sanz holds a PhD degree in English philology, awarded by the University of Valencia, and is a professor of English language in the Department of Applied Linguistics, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain. She has published numerous research papers and book chapters on language learning and teaching, specifically in the fields of English for specific purposes (ESP), computer-assisted language learning (CALL), and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). She is the head of the CAMILLE Research Group, devoted to research in CALL and e-Learning. She is former president (2005-2011) of the European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) and is currently editor-in-chief of The EUROCALL Review, the association's online scientific journal.Gimeno Sanz, A. (2016). Moving a step further from integrative CALL. What's to come?. Computer Assisted Language Learning. 29(6):1102-1115. doi:10.1080/09588221.2015.11032711102111529