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English language education that wants to be relevant for today's learners in a media-influenced social environment needs to include series and serials. Our publication enables (future) language teachers to implement series and serials in their English language classrooms purposefully and equip their learners with series_serials literacy, i.e. the ability to deal with series and serials in an autonomous and critical manner. Three introductory chapters provide substantial theoretical and conceptual considerations on serial narratives, objectives and methods of teaching series and serials. Subsequently, experts in the field of language teaching introduce 17 selected series and serials from different genres, ranging from comedies to sci-fi. Each chapter provides in-depth analyses of the chosen example as well as practical teaching suggestions which are accessible online.
List of contents
Part I: Introduction to Teaching Series and Serials in Foreign Language Education1.Series_serials Literacy as an Objective for English Language Education (Jan-Erik Leonhardt & Britta Viebrock)2.Practical and Methodological Considerations on Fostering Series_serial Literacy in English Language Education (Britta Viebrock & Jan-Erik Leonhardt)3.Characters in Series and Serials: Representation, Reception and Reflection (Carola Surkamp)Part II: First Encounters with Series and Serials in Foreign Language Education4."We Don't Quit, We Got Grit!" - Ada Twist, Scientist and Young Learners of English (Grit Alter)5.Overcoming School Anxiety: Approaching Mental Health Issues in English Language Education through the Serial The Healing Powers of Dude (Annika Janßen & Viviane Lohe)Part III: More Than Just Funny: Comedies and Sitcoms in Foreign Language Education6.Really that 'Smort'? The Sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine in English Language Education (Jan-Erik Leonhardt)7.Teenage Struggles, Lifestyle Products and the Legacy of Tennis Champion John McEnroe: Never Have I Ever in the Secondary EFL Classroom (Britta Viebrock)8.Enhancing Series_Serials Literacy and Multilingual Competences: Jane the Virgin in the EFL Classroom (Carmen Herrero) 9.Gender Diversity in the EFL Classroom: Representations of Queerness in Sex Education (Rieke Dieckhoff & Karoline Thorbecke)10.Exploring the Coming-of-Age Sitcom Derry Girls in the EFL Classroom (Maria Eisenmann)Part IV: Whodunit? Crime Series and Serials in Foreign Language Education11. "One Truth Prevails": Detective Conan and the Modernisation of Traditional Detective Stories (Ariadne Geiling)12. Transmedia Adaptations: BBC's Sherlock and Arthur Conan Doyle's Novels in the EFL Classroom (Celine Göbel)13. Strike in the EFL Classroom: A Popular British Crime Series Tackling Social Class and Celebrity (Isabelle Vanderschelden)Part V: What Future Worlds Can Show Us: Sci-Fi and Dystopian Series and Serials in Foreign Language Education14. Praise Be Women, Life, Freedom: Promoting Critical Literacy in the EFL Classroom with The Handmaid's Tale (Sandra Winkelmann)15. Hear Me Out! Difference and Conflict in The Expanse (Marta Suarez)Part VI: Deconstructing Difference: The Potential of Series and Serials to Foster Social Change16. Exploring Heartstopper Moments and Diversity with Teenagers (TV Serial and Graphic Novel) (Nikola Mayer & Lena Schwarz)17. White Feminism: An Intersectional Analysis of the Series Dickinson (Natalie Güllü, Mareen Lüke & David Gerlach)18. Promoting Critical Series_Serials Literacy with When They See Us (Katharina Delius)19. Dear White People: Deconstructing Racism and Negotiating Black Perspectives in the Upper Secondary EFL Classroom (Lena Hertzel & Thorsten Merse)
About the author
Jan-Erik Leonhardt arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Englischdidaktik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
Porf. Dr. phil. Britta Viebrock leitet den Bereich Didaktik der englischen Sprache und Literatur an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.
