ERIC Number: EJ809369
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-May
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0742-7778
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Twenty-Five Years of Theory in the CALICO Journal
Hubbard, Philip
CALICO Journal, v25 n3 p387-399 May 2008
In honor of CALICO's 25th anniversary, this study looks at the presence and collocations of the term "theory" across issues in 25 volumes of the CALICO Journal. Utilizing the electronic versions of articles now available to all subscribers and the built-in search engine on the CALICO website, 244 articles in which the word "theory" appeared were initially identified. Of those, 78 included examples where "theory" only appeared in the reference list or the author's biographical statement, leaving 166 articles to form the corpus to review for in-text examples. This paper reports on the number and types of theories identified in the corpus, noting the wide range overall but exceedingly small number of references to what could be considered native CALL theories, as well as commenting on the value and limitations of this approach for reviewing scholarly work. (Contains 3 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Theories, Journal Articles, Electronic Journals, Bibliometrics, Literature Reviews, Theory Practice Relationship, Word Frequency, Web Sites, Search Strategies, Online Searching, Computer Assisted Instruction, Native Language Instruction
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. 214 Centennial Hall, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666. Tel: 512-245-1417; Fax: 512-245-9089; e-mail: info@calico.org: Web site: http://calico.org
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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