Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning

Exploring New Directions

AvAna Goncalves Matos

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Del 9 i serien Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning

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Beskrivning

This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study – speculative in nature – about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that reading literary texts may open up a passage to a ‘third place’, a space in which a student can learn more about their own identity and ultimately arrive at a more nuanced understanding of otherness. Some of the skills implicated in the construction of textual understanding can facilitate intercultural learning, opening up opportunities for a pedagogical approach in which the reading of literary texts develops a student’s intercultural perspective and fosters reflection on cultural difference. The author explores the pedagogical potential of the book’s theoretical premises through a sustained classroom-based example.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-12-20
Mått:150 x 225 x 15 mm
Vikt:300 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN:9783034307208

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Ana Gonçalves Matos is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and a researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). Her research interests include intercultural education; teaching and learning languages, cultures and literatures; translation; intercultural citizenship education; and education through the Arts.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents: Reading literary texts as third place and significance for pedagogy – Reading asymmetries and cultural asymmetries – Virtual participation, transformation and imagination – Reader-response and aesthetic experience – Literature and foreign language intercultural pedagogy; individual and collective identities; reality and literary experience – Pedagogical criteria; modes of reading; text choice and a reading model – Classroom experience.