ABSTRACT The Internet as a worldwide literacy practice environment has created a of recent origin situation in communication.

ABSTRACT

The Internet as a worldwide literacy practice environment has created a of recent origin situation in communication, providing a fresh dynamic field for research. forward the basis of the brace articles under discussion, this commentary exhibits three main aspects of the Internet: as an informal learning environment for English as a second/foreign language; as a discursive space where identities are formed and social relationships are negotiated; and, as a space where the intermingling of the global and the local gives rise to hybrid language varieties. Taking into account that electronic environments are not neutral literacy practice environments further are involved in ...