“…Our interest in the implications of our research for language pedagogy is in the spirit of Cope and Kalantzis (2009) , whose multi-literacies approach is grounded on bringing together “what was happening in the world of communications” with “the teaching of language and literacy in schools” (2009: 164). This line of thinking has been part of conversations in Linguistics & Education ( Cekaite & Bjork-Willen, 2018 ; Duran, 2017 ; Fernández-Fontecha, O’Halloran, Wignell, & Tan, 2020 ; Lacasa, Martínez & Méndez, 2008 ; McGinnis, Goodstein-Stolzenberg & Saliani, 2007 ; Rothoni, 2017 ), and has been taken up in foreign language teaching and learning, for example with regard to expanding the scope of EFL writing pedagogy by encompassing vernacular uses of English in various youth cultures (e.g., Kim, 2018 ; Schreiber, 2015 ; Shepard-Carey, 2020 ).…”