Introduction
Pop culture in applied linguistics
International perspectives
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Defining pop culture
- 3.Previous research on pop culture in language-educational contexts
- 4.Summary of the contributions
- 5.Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgments
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