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I recently wrote a column in the LLT journal (Language Learning & Technology) looking back at 25 years of the use of technology in language learning. One of the principal developments discussed in the column is the transformation of the World Wide Web, from the heady early days in the 1990s when the web seemed […]https://acrossculturesweb.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/fb_meta.png