This coursebook demonstrates the relevance of linguistic expertise for the EFL classroom. It explores a wide range of topics (phonetics/phonology, lexis, corpus linguistics, text linguistics and the power of language) always keeping one central question in mind: Why should a future teacher of English know about this? With its highly accessible style and layout, a wealth of examples and exercises as well as a large range of additional innovative online materials this textbook sets out to convince its readers that they will be better teachers if they are good linguists.
Selbstfindung, Identitätsbildung und Emanzipation sind die Herausforderung des Erwachsenwerdens. Das Genre des Coming of Age vereint Filme, deren Handlungen so turbulent und bunt sind wie der Prozess des Heranwachsens selbst. Aus psychoanalytischer Perspektive untersuchen die Autor*innen anhand zahlreicher Filme wie Die Träumer (2003), Abbitte (2007), Das weiße Band (2009), Die Fremde (2010), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) oder Dora oder die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern (2015) Gelingen und Scheitern des Coming of Age.