Integrating Media and Digital Culture into ELT Classroom

The integration of media and digital culture into the English classroom offers a dynamicapproach to language teaching, responding to the realities of students’ lives and the omnipresence ofdigital culture. Students’ immediate reality embraces both media and digital culture. Digital culture isa pervasive influence that is no more bound within public and private distinctions and using suchapplications in the ELT classroom is a present-day challenge. This paper aims to review the theoryand practice of using media and digital culture in the ELT classroom. Furthermore, it identifies someeffective techniques for using media and digital culture texts in the English classroom. At length, thepaper discusses useful strategies like making use of conversation on social media, analysing songlyrics, investigating social movements online, and using code-mixed texts, comic strips, and ethics inadvertisements in connection to pedagogical objectives and also illustrates examples of teachinglanguage materials in which digital culture and media texts are well made and consistent with thelanguage learning objectives of the 21st century.