Born-Digital Texts in the English Language Classroom

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting international and innovative scholarship with practical classroom applications. The book develops a theoretically sound framework for curriculum, materials and methods design that takes into account the growing ubiquity of born-digital texts in the digital age. It covers a broad variety of born-digital text types (including those generated by AI) which so far have not been an explicit focus in the context of language teaching, while also providing a grounding in current discussions around digital tools in education. The chapters cover a wide range of issues from methodological approaches to born-digital texts to curriculum, syllabus and materials design. The book will be a valuable introduction to the subject for trainee and practising teachers, as well as teacher educators and students on EFL courses.

Chapter 7 is free to download as an open access publication under a CC BY licence and is available here: https://zenodo.org/records/11174197.

Saskia Kersten is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Media Didactics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany. Her research interests are formulaic language, digitally-mediated interaction, including its use in the EFL classroom, and corpus linguistic methods in interdisciplinary research. 

Christian Ludwig is currently visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests include literature and digital tools in language teaching as well as applying positive psychology in school settings.