I can imagine that hundreds of years ago saint valentine walked down the road from his chapel to his beloved's house on horseback and sang his poems of love under her window.
Nowadays, celebrating Valentine's day, people use a digital version of courtship. They send mass emails to friends and text messages to significant others, have a virtual date on skype (if the physical distance is significant and sometimes they do it virtually anyway) or send an electronic post card on Facebook. Everything has become digital even love. Do not you catch yourself chatting with your friend in the next room on msn messenger instead of just talking to him face to face, because you are lazy or do not feel like moving? Lets face it technology is taking over our lives, especially the lives of younger generations. This is why I think we should use technology applications in language learning to normalize the process and connect it to their daily life and thus increase their involvement, and consequently, their internalization of language.
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