Born-Digital Texts in the English Language Classroom

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.

• AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Daniel Becker, Saskia Kersten, Christian Ludwig, Peter Schildhauer and Sandra Stadler-Heer: Born-Digital Text in English Language Teaching: The State of PlayChapter 2. Saskia Kersten: The Linguistics of Born-Digital TextsChapter 3. Kathy A. Mills: What Counts as Language Learning in a Born-Digital Textual World?Chapter 4. Celestine Caruso, Judith Hofmann and Kim Schick: Born-Digital Texts and Digitally Mediated Tasks: A Perfect Match for the Inclusive EFL Classroom?Chapter 5. Ralf Gießler and Daniel Becker: #hashtagsareforlearning – Hashtags as Digital Texts and their Affordances in the EFL ClassroomChapter 6. Peter Schildhauer and Katharina Kemper: Towards a Critical Digital Literacy Framework: Exploring the Impact of Algorithms in the Creation of Filter Bubbles on InstagramChapter 7. Valentin Werner: Exploring the Potential of Live Text for ELTThis chapter is open access under a CC BY licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/records/11174197Chapter 8. Janina Reinhardt: From Gaming to Linguistic Action: Let’s Play Videos as (More Than) Mediation TasksChapter 9. Sandra Stadler-Heer: Consuming and Producing Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Text in English Language ClassroomsChapter 10. Jasmina Najjar and Philip M. McCarthy: AI and the Digital Writing ProcessChapter 11. Christopher Rwodzi and Lizette J. De Jager: Learning English as a Second Language through Born-Digital Texts on Social Media in South AfricaChapter 12. Maya Ashooh, Alecia Marie Magnifico and Bethany Silva: “I’m going to teach differently”: Changing Perceptions of Writing Instruction through Digital Text CreationChapter 13. Tara McIlroy: Fanfiction Experiences of Japanese Students: Connecting Wild Reading and L2 LearningChapter 14. Carolin Zehne: The Potential of Location-Based Technologies and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning for ELTChapter 15. Jeanine Steinbock: Alice for the iPad: Digital Storybook Apps in the EFL ClassroomChapter 16. Christian Ludwig, Michaela Sambanis and Georg Hartisch: #Literature Goes Digital: Digital Transformations in the ELT Literature Classroom  Index

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