James P. Lantolf is George and Jane Greer Professor Emeritus of Language Acquisition and Applied Linguistics and former director of the Center for Advanced Language Proficiency Education and Research at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Applied Linguistics in the same academic unit at Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is founder of the Sociocultural Theory...

Education technology enables advances in every aspect of education. This paper explored a model for language pedagogy through Educational Data Mining (EDM). EDM has offered important contributions the last decade. With EDM, many predictions could be made terms learning paths, patterns success and failure, students’ preferences. Such would much needed decision-making, business, academic-wise. Ho...