Blurb:

In Chapter 7, Oskoz and Elola reflect on current digital tools while also anticipating new and unknown ones and restate what they believe are the most significant points of the book. These include the aim of helping L2 students become successful communicators, encouraging L2 instructors to address issues of identity in their pedagogy, and the need to close the digital divide that reflects current social inequality. The authors pose questions to L2 instructors that are designed to encourage moving from abstract concepts to more tangible and practical applications. The chapter concludes with a model of practice to help L2 practitioners and researchers develop new instructional tasks for a more interconnected, globalized (but still localized), and digitally multimodal world. The chapter calls for envisioning what a new language practitioner will look like in a future of digital literacies and technologies, and it offers some final questions for reflection.