Innovation in Language Learning

The development of information technology is taking place at a speed that has no match in history. In the same way, the working environment has become global. Thus, the young generation and higher education graduates are facing a world of work substantively different from that of the previous generations. They are also required to have new types of skills in order to be successful in contemporary knowledge society working environment. This study claims that digital technologies have given rise to a new generation of students who see the world in a different way. Growing up with ICT gadgets, their approach to education and work has been wholly transformed. The youth of today are variously known as the net generation, the post-millennial or "digital native," a term that has been coined by Marc Prensky (2001) since they are born into an “innate new culture". But whatever we call this group of young people—roughly, those born between 1980 and 2000 are living in a digital new world. Computers and handsets are becoming an extension of body and mind, creating a Cyborg-like population. The question that arises here is whether this group of digital natives are digitally literate or this innate “new culture” still needs the interference of qualified teachers that involves collaborative socially assisted learning and promotion of networked expertise.