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This chapter brings together the ideas expounded in the previous chapters by means of a case study of the telephone and language learning. After outlining the exemplary significance of the telephone, I review the main milestones in its evolution. Next I turn to the place of the telephone in everyday life. I start by considering the traditional role of the telephone as a means of interpersonal oral communication before discussing the changes brought by recent developments such as call centres and SMS. In the last part of the chapter I examine the use of the telephone in education and language learning. Again I focus first on conventional telephony before considering the rise of mobile learning.
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Kenning, MM. (2007). Case Study: the Telephone and Language Learning. In: ICT and Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230591325_6
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