Foreign Language Learning in the Digital Age

Christiane Lütge holds the Chair for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich, Germany.

Part I: Foundational concerns on literacies and media in language education. 1. The Changing Dynamics of Online Education: Five Theses on the Future of Learning. 2. After Language: A Grammar of Multiform Transposition. Part II: Everything old is new again: Digitalization, transmediality, and remix. 3. Everyday technology-mediatized language learning: New opportunities and challenges. 4.The hero’s journey as a narrative template across the media in EFL teaching. 5. Triangulating novel, film, and critique: Reading Forster’s Maurice. Part III: Explorations into the digital medium. 6. Digital literacies, digital games: Language, learning, and play. 7. Creating an interactive documentary with foreign language students. 8. Virtual exchange: Offering 21st century skills training through interactive online collaboration in Higher Education. Part IV: Media and technology in the language classroom: Focus on skills and acquisition. 9. Effects of watching subtitled TV series on foreign language vocabulary learning: Does learners’ proficiency level matter? 10. L2 writing through wiki-mediated collaborative tasks: A study in a Vietnamese EFL setting. 11. Technologies in second-language classes: Knowledge synthesis of digital writing skills acquisition. Part V: Multiliteracies and media pedagogy in teacher education. 12. Edu apps in EFL teaching. 13. Transmodalities in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan: Transformative Teaching Approach for Multilingual Early Learning. 14. The LearnWeb project for multiliteracies practices in higher education. Trajectories for multiliteracies in foreign language education: An inclusive paradigm for challenging times.