Full Description
Learning with Literature in the EFL Classroom provides a comprehensive, in-depth and state-of-the-art introduction to literature learning in EFL contexts. Paying attention to both theoretical and practical concerns, the study focuses on a wide range of literary genres, different age and ability groups and new topics for literature learning. The 18 contributions discuss present-day challenges for literature teaching in the light of current theoretical debates and offer a balance between theory and practice by combining theoretical input with practical work in the classroom. The volume offers many suggestions for the future of the field and has a varied readership in mind, comprising language teachers, university students and academics.
Contents
Contents: Werner Delanoy/Maria Eisenmann/Frauke Matz: Learning with Literature in the EFL Classroom - Werner Delanoy: Literature Teaching and Learning: Theory and Practice - Laurenz Volkmann: Literary Literacy and Intercultural Competence: Furthering Students' Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes - Margit Hempel: A Picture (Book) is Worth a Thousand Words: Picture Books in the EFL Primary Classroom - Janice Bland: Performing Poems in the Primary School - Carsten Albers: Poetry in the Intermediate EFL Classroom - Frauke Matz/Anne Stieger: Teaching Young Adult Fiction - Carola Surkamp: Playful Learning with Short Plays - Peter Freese: Teaching Narrative Competence: American Short Stories in the EFL Classroom - Rüdiger Ahrens: Why Read a Shakespeare Play in Class? - Peter Freese: The American Dream: New Approaches to an Old Topic - Maria Eisenmann: Crossovers - Postcolonial Literature and Transcultural Learning - Laurenz Volkmann: Opportunities and Challenges for Transcultural Learning and Global Education via Literature - Frauke Matz: Alternative Worlds - Alternative Texts: Teaching (Young Adult) Dystopian Novels - Wolfgang Hallet: Teaching Multimodal Novels - Christian Ludwig: Narrating the «Truth»: Using Autographics in the EFL Classroom - Nancy Grimm/Julia Hammer: Performative Approaches and Innovative Methods - Gabriele Blell: Approaches to Plurilingual Literature Teaching in the EFL Classroom - René Schallegger: Teaching Games - Video Games in Educational Contexts.
