Mental Health in English Language Education

Mental health is a growing concern in today's society, and schools are emerging as a focal point for addressing this issue. Taking this as a starting point, this volume aims to explore the relevance of curricula and competencies, texts and materials, (digital) culture and communication, and teacher education in the context of mental health and English language education. It brings together scholars from various fields who discuss the relationship between mental health issues and English as a foreign language learning from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented perspectives.

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Mental health has become a growing concern in today's society, with schools emerging as focal points for addressing this topic. The present volume takes this as a starting point to explore the relevance of curricula and competencies, texts and materials, (digital) culture and communication, and teacher education in the context of mental health and English language education. This, for instance, includes insights into interrelated topics such as gender, climate change, stress, and conspiracy theories. A variety of texts including multimodal novels, video games, and songs provides practical impulses for integrating mental health related topics into English lessons. As such, this volume brings together scholars from various fields who discuss the relationship between mental health issues and English as a foreign language learning from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented perspectives.

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Acknowledgement 1. Christian Ludwig , Theresa Summer , Maria Eisenmann , Daniel Becker , Nadine Krüger: Mental Health in English Language Education - An Introduction 2. Nadine Krüger : Expert Interviews: Mental Health in the School ContextSection 1 Curriculum and Competencies3. Nadine Krüger : Expert Interviews: Mental Health in the School Context4. Daniel Becker: We Got a Match! Examining Potential Connections between English Language Teaching and Mental Health Education5. Roman Bartosch & Stefanie Fuchs : The Worst is Yet to Come: Theoretical and Empirical Findings on Mental Health in a Climate-Changed World6. Christian Ludwig & Michaela Sambanis : Gender and Adolescent Mental Health: Building Students' Resilience through Authentic Media and Drama Activities7. Theresa Summer and Valentin Werner : Music and Mental Health in ELT: A Focus on Emotional Self-Regulation with Insights from PsychotherapySection 2 Texts and Materials8. Maria Eisenmann: Sally Nicholls' Multimodal Novel W ays to Live Forever in the EFL Classroom - an Empirical Student Survey9. Caroline Zehne : Addressing Mental Health (Representation) in and with Video Games Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and its potential use in the EFL classroom10. Christian Ludwig & Veronika Martinez : Lighter Than My Shadow: Graphic Memoirs about Eating Disorders in the Multimodal EFL Classroom Section 3 (Digital) Culture & Communication11. Michaela Sambanis: "Down at the end of lonely street": Social Isolation, Loneliness, Stress and Boredom - A neuroDidactic View12. Peter Schildhauer , David Gerlach & Kristin Weiser-Zurmühlen : (Mental) Challenges of a Post-Truth Society: Investigating Conspiracy Theories in the English Language Classroom13. Ben Opitz: Promoting Digital Media Competences By Addressing Cyberbullying in the EFL ClassroomSection 4 Teachers and Teacher Education14. Sonja Babic and Sarah Mercer : Understanding the Ecology of Language Teacher Wellbeing: Theory and Practice15. Eva Seidl & Jelena Petrovic : Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in the University Language Classroom16. Eleni Louloudi : "But, are you really fine?": Reconstructing Mental Health through a Critical Literacy Lesson Developed by Pre-Service Teachers of EnglishContributors