English as a lingua franca mobile technology Mobile assisted language learning Smartphones, tablets, and today's touch screen laptops are powerful tools capable of serving hundreds of specialised, complex operations and applications to anyone, seemingly anywhere in the world. For second language learners and those who teach them, these tools suddenly have the potential to recast the reading experience for 21st century students and invigorate Extensive Reading (ER) research. Exploration into digital ER exclusively through the medium of mobile devices is only an emerging...
