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Technology is dramatically changing the way we go about teaching and learning a second language (L2)(Chapelle, 2007; Motteram & Sharma, 2009; Otto, 2017). Instructional technology benefits L2 learners in a number of ways: it provides learners with a variety of authentic and educational materials (Larsen-Freeman & Anderson, 2011), allows for independent, self-paced learning (Pim, 2013), provides learners opportunities for developing intercultural competence via communication with native and other non-native speakers (Whyte, 2011), and makes them more motivated (Baleghizadeh, 2015), just to name a few. Technological innovations also enable language teachers to create a more exciting and interactive classroom environment by incorporating materials from outside world into the classroom (Stanley, 2013), furnish learners with multimodal feedback (Elola & Oskoz, 2016), and help those learners with …