Teaching Languages with Screen Media - (Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching) (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In recent years, the expansion of screen media, including film, TV, music videos, and computer games, has inspired new tools for both educators and learners. This book illustrates how screen media can be exploited to support foreign language (L2) teaching and learning.

Drawing on a range of theories and approaches from second language acquisition, audio-visual translation, multimodality, and new media and film studies, this book provides both best practices and in-depth research on this interdisciplinary field. Areas of screen media-enhanced learning and teaching are covered across 4 sections: film and broadcast media, in-depth case studies, translation and screen media, and interactive media. With a focus on pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning Spanish, French, German, and English as a Foreign Language, Teaching Languages with Screen Media presents innovative insights in this new interdisciplinary field.

Review Quotes

"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." --M. Carmen Fonseca-Mora, University of Huelva, Spain

About the Author

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.