The use of computers in language teaching and learning, while providing a more interesting environment for the teacher, has also required a good command of some difficult skills. The aim of this text is to reflect on the digital page as an interactive space that is propitious to learning. For that purpose, we do a retrospective study of the printed page, showing that it has a powerful bearing on the development of the digital page, which leads to the need to make a distinction between the digital page, essentially static, and the interactive digital page, essentially dynamic. While the printed and the digital page have readers, who are positioned outside the page, the interactive page has participants, who are positioned inside, in total immersion. It is assumed that the comprehension and exploration of the affordances provided by the interactive page can bring an important contribution to language teaching, making it more effective.
Language learning; CALL; Social semiotics
