Series editors’ foreword

We are delighted to present the newest volume of our series entitled Applied linguistics in the 21st century written by Imre Fekete. The fact that this is another volume in English helps us to realize our vision about the internationalization and wider recognition of research results from Hungarian contexts. Imre Fekete’s work presents the results of a mixed-methods study dealing with a timely and pedagogically important topic, namely, the digital transformation at Hungarian universities and how information and communications technology shapes current practices. This research is unique as both the voices of students and instructors are considered. It is our hope that the results presented in this monograph will inspire instructors to consider learners’ device use in classroom more widely. As at the end of the monograph, Imre listed several new avenues for future studies, it is hoped that researchers will be motivated to investigate COVID-related effects as well as further good practices pertaining to information and communications technology. In addition, further research should also establish a balance between how positive and negative beliefs might affect device use in second language learning and beyond. We think that the topic of this monograph and the careful execution of the research project make this piece of writing a true representation of applied linguistics in the 21st century.