Popular Series in English Language Education

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

Jan-Erik Leonhardt arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Englischdidaktik der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Britta Viebrock, Dr. phil., leitet als Professorin den Bereich Didaktik der englischen Sprache und Literatur an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.