Editorial

[ ]following the Editorial Board meeting in August during the annual EUROCALL conference (held online, as the entire Copenhagen event was inevitably conducted remotely), a third of members of the Editorial Board have been renewed;the list is on the journal homepage and the inside front cover [ ]I’m looking forward to the next issue (33 2) on the theme of “Researching massive open online courses for language teaching and learning”, guest edited by Elena Martín-Monje (UNED, Spain) and Kate Borthwick (University of Southampton, UK) ***** This issue opens with three papers on reading, writing and corpus use Representations and experiences also feature in the study by James York, Koichi Shibata, Hayato Tokutake and Hiroshi Nakayama, here with students’ anxiety with different uses of CALL rather than the usual experimental/control group comparison – an important conceptual change which we are starting to see more of in CALL research designs All three types of synchronous computer-mediated communication (voice, video, virtual reality) reduced anxiety;though differences in post-task anxiety were not significant, there were certainly variations in perception that can be exploited