摘要：This special issue of Language Learning & Technology will explore CALL in the digital wilds, which encompasses informal language learning that takes places in digital spaces, communities, and networks that are independent of formal instructional contexts. Digital technologies, such as mobile devices, and fast connectivity coupled with social networking facilities offer possibilities for unprecedented user-driven, self- and group- initiated practices that redraw models of production, distribution, and reuse of knowledge. This can be seen, for instance, in crowdsourcing, digital activism, citizenship science, and the creative practices of online fan communities, all of which invite us to reimagine the nature of informal language learning that can occur in digital spaces. While digitally enhanced, instructed language learning and classroom language learning research are well established fields of study, there remain fewer empirical studies of informal or beyond-the-class digital language learning..
