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Learning  \nPhilip Hubbard1 & Jozef Colpaert2  \nAbstract  \nFrom its beginnings, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has been widely seen as an enterprise that draws on inputs from multiple disciplines. Scholars tracking the development of such enterprises in other domains have developed generally accepted terminology distinguishing concepts of multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity along a continuum from lesser to greater integration, coherence, and synthesis. We begin with an overview of the three preceding concepts with particular attention to interdisciplinarity in contemporary CALL. We then explore the notion of transdisciplinarity as an emerging theme in applied linguistics, arguably the field most closely related to CALL. In the following section, we look at theoretical options that are less connected to single disciplinary positions and represent the interdisciplinary state of the field and its movement toward transdisciplinarity. We expand on the basic notion of CALL as a potential transdisciplinary field and provide a descriptive framework of transdisciplinary types. The final section offers a model for visualizing transdisciplinarity for CALL with accompanying examples, arguing for a set of common transdisciplinary notions and a lingua franca for CALL stakeholders from a range of disciplines to use when communicating. We conclude that the future of the field lies in a much stronger transdisciplinary orientation than is currently the case and call upon our colleagues to pursue the concept.  \nKeywords: transdisciplinarity; transdisciplinary; interdisciplinarity; interdisciplinary; multidisciplinarity; multidisciplinary; CALL; applied linguistics; framework; SLA  \nAffiliations  \n1Stanford University, USA.  \n[email: phubbard@stanford.edu](email: phubbard@stanford.edu)  \n[2](2University of Antwerp)[University of Antwerp](2University of Antwerp), Belgium.  \n[email: jozef.colpaert@uantwerpen.be](email: jozef.colpaert@uantwerpen.be)  \ncalico journal vol 36.2 2019 81–99 [https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.37499](https://doi.org/10.1558/cj.37499)  \n©2019, equinox publishing   \n82 Toward Transdisciplinarity in CALL  \nIntroduction  \nThe terms transdisciplinarity and transdisciplinary are appearing with increasing frequency across a number of fields. Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is at first glance a primary candidate for this concept. CALL serves as a cover term for a wide range of instantiations of technology in language learning, including tutorial application development, digitally-mediated communication, collaborative learning, informal learning, and teacher education to name just a few. More formally, it sits at the intersection of more established fields, such as linguistics, psychology, sociology, education, and computer science. In recent years, CALL has branched out from its core of the interface of technology and language pedagogy to cover a wider range of related individual and social issues, such as hegemony (Lamy & Pegrum, 2012) and equity (Ortega, 2017) .  \nCALL is seen by many as a subfield of applied linguistics (e.g., Chapelle, 2001), a field that is currently in the process of exploring the concept of transdisciplinarity itself as reflected by the fact that it was the theme of the 2017 American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference. As conference chair Tim McNamara noted,  \nThe choice of transdisciplinarity as a theme for this conference is motivated by a desire to bring closer to researchers in our field the rich intellectual and imaginative resources of thinkers outside Applied Linguistics whose work on language can act asa stimulus and trigger for our own thinking. (AAAL On-site Program, p. 3)  \nYet the use of the term transdisciplinarity, and hence the concept as a coherent construct, remains limited within CALL literature. 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