Abstract
This paper aims at attracting attention towards crowdsourcing opportunities for the language teaching community. It presents and discusses a specific crowdsourcing paradigm designed to mass-produce exercise content for different languages by involving their language learners online. The discussion of the implicit crowdsourcing paradigm is framed by a broader look at the current situation regarding crowdsourcing and language learning. Therefore, we first introduce the concept of crowdsourcing, report on the teacher perspective and discuss common objections and practical challenges with regard to the compatibility of the language learning community with crowdsourcing in terms of expertise, motivation and feasibility. The implicit crowdsourcing paradigm we introduce proposes an approach for automatically generating language learning resources and, at the same time, crowdsourcing language-related datasets. It is designed to exploit a synergy between the language learning community and R&I partners working in language-related areas. The proposed approach is one of multiple experimental initiatives, which are being studied and explored within the enetCollect COST Action (European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques). We conclude the paper with a discussion on our efforts to raise awareness among the varied stakeholders so as to foster the creation of tools implementing the crowdsourcing paradigm.