Editorial

摘要

2008 was an eventful year for the CALL community. A record number of CALL-related conferences were held during the year, including the third WorldCALL Conference held in Fukuoka, Japan, in August 2008. CALL authors have also been very active, with 58 articles from 21 countries worldwide submitted to ReCALL alone. Thirteen of these were published in Volume 20 and seven in the present issue. With an acceptance rate of approximately 35%, ReCALL continues to be one of the major CALL publications. Over the last twenty years, the field has considerably matured and getting CALL research published in reputable journals has become very competitive. Very few articles are accepted without changes, some require major rewriting and others may be directed toward a different publication or simply rejected. In order to get published, as in any other research domain, CALL researchers have to demonstrate their scholarship through a relevant, up-to-date and critical review of the literature. They have to formulate clear research questions that are then investigated through the use of robust methodologies and/or theoretical arguments that will lead to new insights and conclusions that will be relevant to the wider CALL community, far beyond the author's own context.