Exploring the Potential of Live Text for ELT

In view of the arguably understudied and to date underused nature of live text (LT) as a genuine born-digital text (BDT) for purposes of English language teaching (ELT), this chapter aims to develop multiple perspectives on LT. These comprise a media/communication studies perspective that considers LT as a multimodal artifact and an applied media linguistics perspective that explicitly takes into account discourse properties and thus serves to illustrate structural features of LT as a BDT. The aforementioned perspectives will serve as a base to inform the vantage point of ELT that explores LT as a BDT with potential classroom relevance.