Arvanitis, P. (2019). Self-paced language learning using online language learning platforms. In Mark Dressman & Randall William Sadler (Eds.), Handbook of Informal Language Learning. pp. 171-138, Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Online ISBN:9781119472384 |DOI:10.1002/9781119472384.
Nowadays, in a digitally globalized world, an increasing number of learners are learning foreign languages outside a formal and structural classroom-based education. The early familiarization, especially of young learners with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has formed a new way they perceive and process information as well as the way they learn. Online, self-paced, language-learning web environments and mobile apps offer various possibilities for foreign language learners to explore different types of texts and materials and use the authentic target language.