Report on CMC SIG regional event: CMC and Language Learning: Research and Practice

In recent years CMC has taken on increasingly diverse forms, from e-mail, chat and online forums to social software (web 2.0) such as blogs and wikis, virtual worlds, desktop audio and video conferencing. These new forms of communication are becoming an integral part of modern life and are also finding their place in the language classroom, offering new modes of communication for engaging learners in authentic language learning experiences. This paper reports on the EUROCALL CMC SIG conference which was held at the University of Padova in 2008 bringing together experts from European educational contexts to share examples of good practice in the use of CMC for language learning, teaching and research and by engaging participants in discussion of the issues involved