Popular Series in English Language Education

Part I: Introduction to Teaching Series and Serials in Foreign Language Education

1.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 Education

4."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 Education

6.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 Education

11. "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 Education
14. 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 Change
16. 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)