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This is a free, online wikibook, so it is continually being updated and refined.  According to the authors, "Autonomous Technology-Assisted Language Learning (ATALL) includes (a) the development and use of technological tools to facilitate foreign language (FL) or second language (L2) learning (both to be used synonymously hereafter), and (b) research on the development, use, and effects of such tools...ATALL encompasses all forms of electronic and information technology that can be used to facilitate L2 proficiency. This includes the obvious tools of computer and Internet technology. But it also includes other forms of communication technology such as wired and wireless telephony, television and radio (broadcast, satellite and cable) and the integration of older communication technologies with newer information technologies...ATALL activities can be divided into the five primary domains of input, output, interaction, exercise, and assessment, which form five of the primary modules of this wikibook."