Second or Foreign Language Learning in a Digital Age: Exploring and Reviewing Newer Possibilities

Though digital intrusion of technology into the teaching-learning process is not a recent development and we have been occasionally (weekly/monthly/quarterly) sprucing up multi-media in our teaching pedagogy along with regular classroom teaching in the past also. However, the real potential of digital technology has never been fully explored and put to use before the recent Covid-19 pandemic. The ‘new normal’ has offered us an opportunity to explore, discover and eventually apply consistently, the newer digital tools into the pedagogy. The present paper explores, identifies and enlists newer, interesting and trendy ways of second or foreign language learning in a digital age. It scrutinizes the potential of new media towards second and foreign language learning, specifically English through Blogs, social networking, educational and vernacular sites namely Face book, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp, Amazon Kindle, Slide Share, Canva etc. Besides this, the study undertaken interweaves the challenging areas of digital learning and its future implications in its tex