摘要：Interdisciplinarity has become a buzzword in academia (Callard & Fitzgerald; Dzeng, 2013), and it is highly valued for helping to advance scientific research, approach and solve problems in innovative ways, as well as generate crucial research ideas (National Science Foundation, n.d.). Given that computer-assisted language learning (CALL), a field spanning two different disciplines (language learning and teaching and computer technology), is a relatively young field usually housed in applied linguistics and lacking in its own research methods, collaboration with other disciplines dealing with the development and use of technology is more than welcome to compensate for methodological shortcomings. In this sense, the edited volume, Language-learner computer interactions: Theory, methodology, and CALL applications, is a timely publication, as it is intended to bring together research methodologies and questions in the fields of applied linguistics, science, technology, and engineering. Due to the extraordinarily integrated nature of this volume, readers may realize that the relationship among these fields is closer than presumed and may notice that such interdisciplinary efforts make it possible to answer previously unanswered questions on the nature of learner–computer interactions.
