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Information and communication technologies are having a profound affect on all aspects of language use, especially in written communication. The purposes of writing, the genres of written communication, and the nature of audience and author are all changing rapidly with the diffusion of computer-mediated communication, both for first and second language writers. This chapter reviews research on the relationship of new technologies to writing and discusses the implications of this research for English language learning and teaching. Issues addressed include the participatory dynamics and linguistic features of computer-assisted classroom discussion, the impact of e-mail exchanges on students’ writing process, and the relationship of writing purpose to student outcomes in multimedia authoring. The chapter also addresses areas of debate and concern, such as whether the internet fosters plagiarism, and whether new forms of computer-mediated writing serve to complement and enhance mor...

The two crucial innovations we’ve seen so far are not the only sectors in which China is showing what it can do. Another is supercomputer s . These highly powerful tools occupy whole floors in laboratories. They are used in the most strategic sectors in science, industrial research and security, to analyse billions of DNA sequences, improve weather forecasts and simulate atomic bomb explosions, to give just a few examples. China’s progress in this sector is phenomenal. In 2001, it didn’t have a single supercomputer . Today, 206 of the world’s 500 most powerful are to be found in the People’s Republic. This progress has been at the expense of the United States, which has gone from having 145 in the top 500 in 2017, to 124 today. First and second place in the ranking have recently been snatched back by the Americans, thanks to IBM’s supercomputers Summit and Sierra. However, the TaihuLight and Tianhe-2A provide China with third and fourth place. That’s...

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