Integrating the “Human Feel” into Online Second/Additional Language Teaching Approaches

Abstract

The nature of our communication processes, daily interactions, and as educators our educational tools and learning environments, are increasingly technology-mediated (Stanley, 2013). In many ways, technology use has become a normalized part of life in the 21st century (Stanley, 2013; Sykes, Oskoz, & Thorne, 2016). As Judy Brown (2012) stated in her keynote address to the 2012 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, we North Americans check our mobile devices approximately 150 times/day, on average every 6.5 minutes.