To Innovate or not to Innovate in the Didactic Second Language Scenario (and How) – that Is the Question?

Abstract

The development and the evolution of digital information technologies have orchestrated

the most significant advance in the history of second language didactics, in particular,

in its online and/or distance modalities. This new era of Distance Foreign Language

Learning, overrun by digital learning, social and gaming tools, has caused an authentic

education revolution, qualified by significant researchers as disruptive. The rapid changes

in the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to education require

carrying out urgently studies that analyse rigorously the potential benefits of this new

digital media adoption, sometimes thoughtless and even unjustified, in the area of second

language didactics...