TaiwanCALL 2025 International Conference
Organized by TaiwanCALL Association (formerly as PPTELL), Providence University,
and National Science and Technology Council
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Keynote Speakers
The University of Hong Kong
Chun Lai is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on self-directed language learning with technology beyond the classroom. Her recent books on this topic are Autonomous Language Learning with Technology beyond the Classroom (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018), Insights into Autonomy and Technology in Language Teaching (Castledown Publishers, 2023), and The Routledge Handbook of Language learning and Teaching Beyond the Classroom (Routledge, 2022), co-edited with Hayo Reinders and Pia Sundqvist.
Learner Agency in Informal Digital Learning Contexts
With the omnipresence of digital resources, informal digital language learning is exerting increasing influence on students’ language development. Digital resources are also constantly evolving. How learners exert agency in informal digital learning contexts is drawing research attention. Agency is “the interplay of individuals’ capacities and environment conditions” to form intentional and meaningful actions (Priestley et al., 2015, p. 3). In the context of informal digital language learning, agency emerges in the intertwining relationships among learner properties, social structures in informal contexts, and socio-technological circumstances (Rose & Jones, 2005). Guide by this framework, this talk will give an overview of factors that influence learner agency in informal digital learning contexts and discuss how to support learner agency in informal digital learning contexts.