Valentin Werner is Assistant Professor at the department of English and Historical Linguistics of the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Friederike Tegge is a Research Associate at Te Kunenga ki P¿rehuroa/Massey University and an English teacher at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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 Bollansée, Eva Puimège & 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