摘要：As the field of CALL matures, teacher-scholars are employing many new and exciting applications of digital technologies for second and foreign language learning, including mobile technologies, gaming, and social media to name just a few. Likewise, new applications for student–computer and student–student interaction continue to improve and expand. Such developments, while exciting, present a host of methodological challenges for researchers. That is to say, as we attempt to harness many of these technologies for language learning and study their effectiveness, we often find that familiar methodologies for collecting and analyzing data are limited if not fully inadequate. The articles in this special issue on methodological innovation in CALL highlight how specific innovative methodological choices allow researchers to capture and analyze aspects of learner–computer or learner–learner interaction in ways that help illuminate the relationship between CALL and second language development..
