Media and American Studies in the EFL-Classroom

Edited by Jürgen Donnerstag & Laurenz Volkmann.

The ten contributions to this volume focus specifically on "traditional" visual media such as films and video clips, but also on blogs, podcasts, digital storytelling, hyperfictions, Internet projects, creating learner software, etc. As the articles either explicitly or implicitly indicate, these new media formats are suitable for integration into current action- or task-based teaching forms. All articles aim to foster nuanced judgments on literature, culture, and popular media in the US. The media discussed here mirror the multiplicity of voices within the US, indicating the tremendous variety of cultural and political positions. They undermine lopsided and biased attitudes toward American mass media, forcing the learner to discuss critical positions within the US and to modify stereotypical media judgements. Contributions by Carola Surkamp, Carsten Albers, Kerstin Knopf, Leander Linnhoff, Jürgen Donnerstag, Martina Wolff, Bruno Arich-Gerz, Peter Cockelbergh, Jochen Baier and Laurenz Volkmann. - Contents: Carola Surkamp: A Cultural Approach to Films in the Foreign Language Classroom. Gender Roles and Questions of Identity in "The Hours". - Carsten Albers: Image, Stardom, and Iconicity. Teaching Visual Reference and Intertextuality in Music Videos. - Kerstin Knopf: Media Literacy and Challenges for Educators. - Leander Linnhoff: Podcasting / Broadcasting via IPod and ITunes in the EFL-Classroom. - Jürgen Donnerstag: From Print Literacy to Creative Digital Literacy in the Classroom. - Martina Wolff: Blogs in English Language Teaching. Didactic and InterculturalPerspectives. - Bruno Arich-Gerz/Peter Cockelbergh: Of E-Keatings, Ezra Pound and "Galateas". Programmatic Aspects of the Darmstadt E-Learning Research Training Group and Its Implementation in American Literature Classes. - Jochen Baier: Teaching Literature by Means of the Computer. Exarnimng the American Dream by Using Edwina Dakins' Interactive Drama "My Baby's Bracelet" in the Foreign Language Classroom. - Bruno Arich-Gerz: E-Learning as Collaborative Effort. - Laurenz Volkmann: Throw Away Your Textbook - Log In?! Reflections on the Internet as a Teaching/Learning Resource. - 193 Seiten mit 14 Abb., gebunden (American Studies - A Monograph Series; Vol. 172/Universitätsverlag Winter 2008)