The range of activities that the Internet offers today seems unlimited. The average surfer can view, hear, read, play, communicate (in writing and orally) to satisfy both professional and personal needs. As things stand, a considerable number of people (especially the young, teenagers and students) are part of a vast online community. The aim of this article is to plunge into this digital world
... [Show full abstract] and conceptualize it from an epistemological, methodological and didactic point of view, starting by the description of a budding discipline : ‘learning English informally online’ (AIAL).