Pop Culture in Language Education: Theory, Research, Practice

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Pop Culture in Language Education provides comprehensive insight on how studies of pop culture can inform language teaching and learning. The volume offers a state-of-the-art overview of empirically informed, cutting-edge research that tackles both theoretical concerns and practical implications. The book focuses on how a diverse array of pop culture artifacts such as pop and rap music, movies and TV series, comics and cartoons, fan fiction, and video games can be exploited for the development of language skills. It establishes the study of pop culture and its language as a serious subfield within language education and applied linguistics and explores how studies of pop culture, its language, and its non-linguistic affordances can inform language education at various levels of proficiency and with various learner populations. Presenting a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research approaches including case studies on how pop culture has been used successfully in language education in and beyond the classroom, this book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and students in the field of language education, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, as well as for language teachers and materials developers. Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Learning languages through pop culture/learning about pop culture through language education • Valentin Werner and 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 and 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 8 Eco-songs in foreign language education • Theresa Summer 9 Learning through sharing: Enhancing critical engagement with popular culture content using social media in a second language context • Anne Peirson- Smith and 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 and 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 Bollans.e, Eva Puim.ge and Elke Peters 13 Levelling up comprehensible input and vocabulary learning: The lexical profile of videogames • Michael P. H. Rodgers and Julian Heidt 14 Pedagogically mediating engagement in the wild: Trajectories of fandom-based curricular innovation • Shannon Sauro and 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 and Graham V. Crookes Index