Using Literature in English Language Education

Janice Bland is Professor of English Education at Nord University, Norway. She is co-editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal, Children's Literature in English Language Education.

This book introduces a framework for thinking differently about texts in ELT, encouraging practitioners to move away from simplified literature (or graded readers), and raises important questions about what counts as a complex or generative text, and to whom, and for what purposes… Bland’s edited volume is … an important body of work that reframes the goals for, and methodologies of, English language teaching.

• Notes on ContributorsForeword, Peter Hunt (Professor Emeritus Cardiff University, UK) 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Literature, Janice Bland (Nord University, Norway)Part I: Multimodal Challenges2. The Graphic Novel: Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruckand The Marvels, Marek Oziewicz (University of Minnesota, USA)3. Playscript and Screenplay: Creativity with J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, Janice Bland (Nord University, Norway)4. The Wordless Picturebook: Literacy in Multilingual Contexts and David Wiesner’s Worlds, Evelyn Arizpe (University of Glasgow, UK) and Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow, UK)5. The Picturebook in Elementary ELT: Multiple Literacies withBob Staake’s Bluebird, Gail Ellis (British Council – EU Region)6. Story Apps: The Challenge of Interactivity, Sonja Brunsmeier (University of Education–Tyrol, Austria) and Annika Kolb (University of Education–Freiburg, Germany)7. Transmedial Reading: Tim Winton’s Lockie Leonard, Michael Prusse (University of Teacher Education–Zurich, Switzerland)Part II: Provocative and Compelling8. Literature in Language Education: Challenges for Theory Building, Werner Delanoy (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)9. Diversity in Love-Themed Fiction: John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars and David Levithan’s Princes, Johanna Marks (University of Münster, Germany) and Thorsten Merse (University of Munich, Germany)10. Popular Culture Head On: Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, Janice Bland (Nord University, Norway)11. Thought Experiments with Science Fiction: Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ju¨rgen Wehrmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany)12. Environmental Havoc in Teen Fiction: Speculating Futures, Jean Webb (University of Worcester, UK)13. Hamlet, Ophelia and Teenage Rage: Michael Lesslie’s Prince of Denmark, Tzina Kalogirou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)Part III: Embracing the Challenges14. Negotiating the Challenges of Reading Literature: Teachers Reporting on their Practice, Sam Duncan (UCL Institute of Education, UK) and Amos Paran (UCL Institute of Education, UK)15. Afterword: Thoughts on the Way Ahead, Geoff Hall (University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China)Annotated Bibliography: Literary Texts Recommended for Children and Young Adults in ELT, Janice Bland (Nord University, Norway) Index