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Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Teaching and Learning book cover

1st Edition

Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Teaching and Learning

By Shannon Sauro Copyright 2027
196 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Fanfiction and Fan Practices for Language Learning and Teaching explores fan fiction as a tool for language learning, harnessing fans' enthusiasm and creativity while engaging in practices such as fanfiction writing, fan translation, and fanart in another language. The book bridges theory and practice by highlighting three case studies demonstrating the varied ways in which fans, including... Read more

Preface  1. Introduction: Looking to fans and fan practices for language learning and teaching  2. Where the wild things play: Fans, fan practices, and the fields that study them  3. Fan practices for which languages? A scoping review of the research  4. The case of the Sherlock fan: Spoiling for language and critical digital literacy development  5. A study in fanfiction  6. “Whatever remains, however improbably, must be the truth”: Researching fan practices and language learning  7. Lessons from the fandom for the language classroom

Biography

Shannon Sauro (PhD, Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania) is a professor in the program for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at the School of Education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in the United States.

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