Teaching Languages with Screen Media

Carmen Herrero is Principal Lecturer of Spanish at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Marta F. Suarez is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsNotes on Contributors1. Screen Cultures and Language Education: Current and Future Trends in Teaching, Learning and Research, Carmen Herrero and Marta F. Suarez (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)Part I: Entertainment Media: Informed Research and Practice2. Screen Media in Language Education: Towards a Student-Centred Approach, Carmen Herrero, Marta F. Suarez (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) and Alicia Sánchez-Requena (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)3. Integrating Screen Media into the Language Curriculum, Carmen Herrero (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)4. Bridging the Gaps Left by Boredom and Socio-Cultural Misperceptions: Does Foreign Film Pedagogy Hold the Answer? Mark Goodwin (University of Manchester, UK)5. Teaching Languages to Generation Z Students: The Impact of the Use of Audiovisual Materials in the Spanish Classroom, Nazaret Pérez Nieto (University of Cardiff, UK) and Ares Llop Naya (University of Cambridge, UK)6. Language Education at the BBC: Past, Present and Future, Steven Barclay (City University London)Part II: Interactive Screen Media: Informed Research and Practice7. Designing an International Tourism Fair to Improve Students’ Learning with Collaborative Work, Azahara Veroz González and Soledad Díaz Alarcón (University of Córdoba, Spain)8. Translating Film Reviews as a Means of Improving Students’ Interlinguistic and Plurilingual Abilities, Mazal Oaknín (UCL, UK)9. Benefits and Drawbacks of Using Social Networking Sites in Higher Education: The Case of Facebook as a Transmedia English Language Teaching Tool, Jelena Bobkina (Technical University of Madrid, Spain) and Elena Domínguez Romero (Complutense University of Madrid)10. The Kinaesthetics of Gamification: Exploring the Theory behind Exergaming as a Potential Aid to Language Learning, Chris McGuirk (University of Central Lancashire, UK)11. Video-Based Approaches to Foreign Language Pedagogy: Two Case Studies on Techno-CLIL in the Secondary School Classroom in Italy and the Netherlands, Michael Thomas (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) and Valentina Morgana (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)12. Participatory Video in Practice: Filming with Women from the Sudanese Community in Bradford, Simona Manni (University of York, UK)

This book is an updated vision of how screen media can promote foreign language learning. Language students will feel motivated to learn through consuming, analyzing and producing interesting media artifacts that give them extended language learning opportunities beyond the classroom walls.