Pop Culture in Language Education : Theory, Research, Practice

Introduction 1 Learning languages through pop culture/learning pop culture through language education Valentin Werner & Friederike Tegge Part I: The language of pop culture and language skills areas 2 Teen talk in TV series as a model of linguistic innovation and emotional language Silvia Bruti 3 Swear/taboo words in US TV series: Combining corpus linguistics with selected insights from screenwriters and learners Monika Bednarek 4 Exploring the vocabulary of rap lyrics Friederike Tegge & Averil Coxhead 5 Teaching grammar through pop culture Valentin Werner Part II: Pop culture and classroom practice 6 Going beyond the surface with pop culture: Using humorous cartoon series to explore social issues in the foreign language classroom John Rucynski 7 Political comics and cartoons in language education: Suggestions for Arabic as a Foreign Language in classrooms in the USA Sadam Issa 8 Eco-songs in foreign language education Theresa Summer 9 Learning through sharing: Enhancing critical engagement with pop culture content using social media in a second language context Anne Peirson-Smith & Lindsay Miller 10 Foreign language students, pop culture, and university degree thesis projects Joe Trotta Part III: Beyond the classroom 11 Pop culture in teaching Chinese as an additional language: Theory, research, and practice Raymond Pai & Patricia A. Duff 12 Watch out! Behind you is the enemy! An exploratory study into the relationship between extramural English and productive vocabulary knowledge Lieven Bollansee, Eva Puimege & Elke Peters 13 Levelling up comprehensible input and vocabulary learning: The lexical profile of videogames Michael P. H. Rodgers & Julian Heidt 14 Pedagogically mediating engagement in the wild: Trajectories of fandom-based curricular innovation Shannon Sauro & Steven L. Thorne Part IV: Sociocultural and culture-critical considerations 15 Teaching authenticity of media and pop culture texts Andrew Moody 16 The new normal: English language learning, pop culture, and the politics of investment Awad Ibrahim 17 The use of K-Pop culture in a critical EAP classroom Hyeyoung Jung & Graham V. Crookes