Werner, ValentinValentinWerner0000-0003-2669-35572024-06-102024-06-102024https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/95580Labeled an immediate form of journalism, live text (LT), also known as live blogging, has emerged as a popular web-based alternative for reporting on various (pre-scheduled) events with limited duration, such as sports matches, election debates, natural disasters, etc. It represents a hybrid register in manifold respects as it (i) combines textual, visual and interactive elements, (ii) is characterized by blending different journalistic styles (reporting, commenting, glossing), and (iii) serves a dedicated infotainment function. In addition, it offers users the opportunity to actively contribute to the eventual media product, mainly via social media channels, and thus to become active prosumers. As LT as a comparatively recent phenomenon to date has not been assessed within EFL contexts, this study will explore its affordances for language-pedagogical purposes. Based on analyses that have described LT from linguistic and media studies perspectives, it will be argued that it offers opportunities (i) for working on reading comprehension of complex authentic materials, (ii) for contrastive work with more traditional media material, (iii) for the engagement with current events “in the wild”, and (iv) for raising awareness about the dynamic (multi-authored and multi-layered) properties of digital-born text types as well as about the production and consumption circumstances of emerging digital registers. From a practical perspective, classroom work with LT thus has clear potential to develop digital and multimodal literacies, and therefore appears to be squarely in line with central demands of current EFL curricula. By contrast, it will be recognized that there are several challenges for integrating LT into the EFL classroom, which are largely due to the multiple hybrid nature of LT as sketched above, and that LT is best suited for advanced learner populations.englive textlive bloggingdigital literacyinfotainmentmultimodal literacyEFLELTlanguage education420bookparturn:nbn:de:bvb:473-irb-955800