This document discusses the future of language learning. It describes how technology is changing how English and other languages evolve through communication online. New forms of "Panglish" are emerging. The document also discusses how technology will transform language learning, noting that augmented reality and human-computer symbiosis may allow for total immersion in a new language through machines and nanocomputers embedded in the brain. Ultimately, the document suggests all forms of communication may be represented by a universal code, making distinct natural languages obsolete.

1. Redefining TESOL in the Digital Age
Technological Language Immersion
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2. TESOL2 -Technological Language Immersion
•How the English language is evolving today.
•How humans learn second languages now.
•How humans will learn languages in the future.
•Will language become obsolete?
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3. Evolution of the English Language
Do you speak Panglish? Any language is constantly evolving, so it's not surprising that English, transplanted to new soil, is bearing unusual fruit. Nor is it unique that a language, spread so far from its homelands, would begin to fracture. The obvious comparison is to Latin, which broke into mutually distinct languages over hundreds of years —French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian. A less familiar example is Arabic: The speakers of its myriad dialects are connected through the written language of the Koran and, more recently, through the homogenized Arabic of Al Jazeera. But what's happening to English may be its own thing: It's mingling with so many more local languages than Latin ever did, that it's on a path toward a global tongue —what's coming to be known as Panglish. Soon, when Americans travel abroad, one of the languages they'll have to learn may be their own.
A growing body of research shows electronic communications channels like instant messaging have created a kind of semi-speech -language that is between talking and writing. Some say it is evidence of evolution, not of decay.
Technology allows us to communicate faster using symbols and abbreviations, while expending less energy to convey the same ideas.
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4. How do we learn a 2ndlanguage?
Traditional Methods
Art/Music
Direct Based
Communicative
Vocabulary
Total Physical Response
RassiasMethod
Computer Assisted Language Learning
It can take5 to 10 yearsusing traditional methods to become fluent in a language you are not immersed.
Factors
Your age-the younger you are when you start, the better
Your aptitudefor language - some people are just better at language than others
The effortyou put into learning -if you practice every day you'll learn and remember a lot more than someone who goes to class once a week but never practices outside of class
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5. Technological Language Immersion How we will learn languages in the near future.
Technological Language into a second language
Augmented Reality
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machines.
Immersion is the
total immersion
achieved through

6. How We Will Learn Languages in the Distant Future.
for wireless communication over networks. These nanocomputerswill symbiotically fit into areas of the brain responsible for transmitting and receiving information.
Nanocomputers
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perfect nanocomputers Symbiosis
 Eventually humans will  Human-Computer

7. Will Language Become Obsolete?
In the distant future it is conceivable that communication Sources: Wired.com, About.com, Seeingwithsound.com, AmericanTESOL.com
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forms of communication will be represented in a universal code.
will be achieved through human-computer symbiosis, and all