Into the Arcane: Pop Culture as a Representation of Language and Cross-Cutting Themes in EFL Teaching

In the last decade, the spread of popular culture has undergone a genuine revolution in terms of format, content, and consumption habits offering new opportunities for teachers to incorporate popular culture into the EFL classroom to make the learning and teaching more interesting and meaningful. Ev...

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Autor: López García, Marta Olvido
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositorio:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/59197
Acceso en línea:https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59197
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Pop culture
Arcane
EFL
Gender
Class consciousness
Cultural awareness
Cultura pop
ILE
Género
Conciencia de clases
Conciencia cultural
5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
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Sumario:In the last decade, the spread of popular culture has undergone a genuine revolution in terms of format, content, and consumption habits offering new opportunities for teachers to incorporate popular culture into the EFL classroom to make the learning and teaching more interesting and meaningful. Even though popular culture reflects the society and the culture of the target language, the use of these kind of materials in the EFL classroom has been regarded as a mere passive activity, a form of entertainment, or a reward for the students rather than as a tool that enhances learning. Thus, the main aim of this dissertation is to vindicate the use of pop culture in the EFL classroom by analyzing the possibilities that pop culture can offer in EFL teaching and providing a teaching proposal based on Arcane.