Digital Textualities and Spaces in ELT: An Introduction

The digital world opens up a vast number of spaces such as immersive virtual reality, digital book corners, and discourses marked by hashtags. In this volume, we argue that newly emerging digital spaces and textualities should play a more central role in English language education, as their multimodality and interactivity opens up manifold opportunities for engaging with different levels of meaning within the target language. Theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented contributions offer insights into current research projects and teaching concepts.

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The digital world opens up a vast number of spaces such as immersive virtual reality, digital book corners, and discourses marked by hashtags. Their potential for opening up new pathways for learning and teaching is yet to be explored. In this volume, we argue that digital spaces and textualities should play a more central role in English language education, as their multimodality and interactivity opens up manifold opportunities for engaging with different levels of meaning within the target language. Digital spaces can be considered as digital contact zones where individual readers and writers communicate, negotiate experiences, and form collective identities. The specific textualities provide opportunities for competence development in various areas. This volume presents theoretical and conceptual perspectives as well as case studies on digital spaces and textualities while discussing practical implications for English language education.