Born-Digital Texts in the English Language Classroom

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting 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.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book is the first to focus specifically on born-digital texts in EFL teaching, uniting 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Saskia Kersten (Editor), Christian Ludwig (Editor), Ludwig Christian (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781800414792
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-479-2
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 420 g
• Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Literacy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Language teaching theory & methods, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)