AILA Review· 2026Q1
Digital spaces and language learning
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Short summary
This commentary highlights how digital spaces, including AI and platformization, present both established and novel challenges and opportunities for language learning, emphasizing process, criticality, and power dynamics.
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Key points
- Digital spaces offer both familiar (digital multimodal composing) and emerging (AI, platformization) areas for language learning.
- Key themes discussed include process/agency, criticality/creativity, and power/platforms/legitimacy.
- The commentary emphasizes the need for educators to promote active and critical learning.
- There is a call for more research on how educators can navigate digital challenges to enhance individual agency.
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Abstract
Abstract In this commentary, I consider contributions to the special issue on Challenges and Affordances in Digital Spaces. The contributions both build on well-established areas of interest in language learning and technology (like digital multimodal composing, for example) and attend to relatively new frontiers in the digital domain (like AI and platformization). I comment on three inter-related themes that are raised in the special issue: (1) process and distributed agency, (2) criticality and creativity, (3) power, platforms and legitimacy. I close with a call for more research to better understand how language and literacy educators can rise to meet increasing challenges in ways that promote active and critical learning, meaningful activity, and individual agency.
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Field: Literature and Literary Theory
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