New virtualities in the teaching of language and literature

Abstract

Fear of the accelerated advance of new information and communication technologies is not a psychophysiological novelty in the technical or emotional history of homo communicans and the virtuality has not represented its most insubordinate discovery. On the contrary, written art has been, for millennia, the privileged medium of human domination over virtuality and, without a doubt, the preferred tool of language teaching. A calmer reflection and strict remembrance of its role in universal history will awake faith in the mediation of new virtualities for the teaching of language and literature.