First of all teaching and learning English in the digital age means using digital tools in
TEFL classrooms. This introduction exemplifies how to implement them in a meaningful way in
combination with reliable methods (for additional practice-oriented teaching and learning
suggestions see: A further important aspect of digitization is teaching and learning about
media. Teachers have to create and deploy opportunities that allow students to develop a
critical stance toward media in general and digital media in particular. This introduction to
TEFL shows that the rapidly increasing influences of digitization lead to more
internationalized and globalized science-based approaches to teaching and learning English. In
this perspective digitization offers an opportunity to rethink and reshape didactic concepts.
