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March 2008
Volume 11, Number 4

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Trends in Digital Media 2007

Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
California State University, Sacramento &
Command Performance Language Institute
<ehansonsmigmail.com>

Abstract

The world of CALL is changing rapidly, but there are three major trends that can be perceived as significant to language teaching and learning and likely to remain so over the next several years. This paper will discuss these trends--convergence, searchability, and collaboration--and offer examples of interesting websites that illustrate them.

Keywords: EFL, ESL, Web 2.0, VOI, tagging, blogs, wikis

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