(Re)placing Literary Texts in the Intercultural Foreign Language Classroom
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| Title: | (Re)placing Literary Texts in the Intercultural Foreign Language Classroom |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Matos, Ana Gonçalves |
| Source: | International Education Studies. Dec 2011 4(5):5-9. |
| Availability: | Canadian Center of Science and Education. 1120 Finch Avenue West Suite 701-309, Toronto, ON M3J 3H7, Canada. Tel: 416-642-2606 Ext 206; Fax: 416-642-2608; e-mail: ies@ccsenet.org; Web site: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/es |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 5 |
| Publication Date: | 2011 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Literature, Critical Reading, Cultural Awareness, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries |
| Geographic Terms: | Portugal |
| ISSN: | 1913-9020 |
| Abstract: | In the history of language teaching, literary texts have gradually been reduced to a source for linguistic learning, as an informative representation of cultural traits or even dismissed from the foreign language classroom. This paper aims to add reasons that justify considering literary texts a vital presence in the foreign language classroom. One general aim is to promote the study of foreign literature as enjoyable and (inter)culturally significant.The classroom is inevitably a culturally heterogeneous setting since its elements are already socialized subjects. Instead of its limiting role of supplying knowledge, the classroom ought to foster reading critically through a pedagogy of questioning the text, searching for and building textual meaning. Teaching literature in a foreign language should underline how literature offers new perspectives and how these views are directly relevant to the world we live in and the lives we lead. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Number of References: | 19 |
| Entry Date: | 2015 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1066627 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | In the history of language teaching, literary texts have gradually been reduced to a source for linguistic learning, as an informative representation of cultural traits or even dismissed from the foreign language classroom. This paper aims to add reasons that justify considering literary texts a vital presence in the foreign language classroom. One general aim is to promote the study of foreign literature as enjoyable and (inter)culturally significant.The classroom is inevitably a culturally heterogeneous setting since its elements are already socialized subjects. Instead of its limiting role of supplying knowledge, the classroom ought to foster reading critically through a pedagogy of questioning the text, searching for and building textual meaning. Teaching literature in a foreign language should underline how literature offers new perspectives and how these views are directly relevant to the world we live in and the lives we lead. |
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| ISSN: | 1913-9020 |
