Technology and New Learner Type

With the ever-growing interest in using technology for a variety of pedagogical purposes, the teachers get empowered to enrich the learning environments by adapting them to the students’ learning priorities as they follow different learning routes to the same learning destination. The emerging digital technologies have created new learner types with their self-defined learning boundaries. In such a context, teachers are expected to update their teaching methods based on the evolving technology-mediated learning strategies of this group of learners or the digital generation. The present article introduces the new and different generation of language learners