As L2 (foreign and second language) instructors and materials designers are faced with online and distance learning mandates, new perspectives on how to use familiar, everyday technologies that learners can access from home like social media are welcome. Imagining these new uses, however, may require going beyond the traditional computer‐assisted language learning (CALL) metaphors of computer‐as‐tutor or tool, which were established before social media. This article outlines four new metaphors that better capture the new user dynamics of social media: windows, mirrors, doorways, and playgrounds. After a discussion of the brief history of CALL metaphors, these new metaphors are presented with support from research alongside ideas for L2 teaching and learning

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社交媒体强化外语教学的隐喻

由于 L2（外语和第二语言）教师和材料设计师面临着在线和远程学习任务，因此欢迎就如何使用熟悉的、学习者可以在家中访问的日常技术（如社交媒体）提出新观点。然而，想象这些新用途可能需要超越传统的计算机辅助语言学习 (CALL) 比喻，即在社交​​媒体之前建立的计算机作为导师或工具。本文概述了四个新的比喻，可以更好地捕捉社交媒体的新用户动态：窗户、镜子、门口和游乐场。在讨论了 CALL 隐喻的简史之后，这些新隐喻得到了研究的支持以及 L2 教学和学习的想法