1st Edition

Language, Literature and the Learner Creative Classroom Practice

By Ronald Carter, John Mcrae Copyright 1997
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Language, Literature and the Learner is an edited volume evolving from three international seminars devoted to the teaching of literature in a second or foreign language. The seminars explicitly addressed the interface between language and literature teaching to investigate the ways in which literature can be used as a resource for language growth at secondary, intermediate and... Read more
General Editor's Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction.

1. Look both ways before crossing: developments in the language and literature classroom, Ronald Carter
2. Representational language learning: from language awareness to text awareness, John McRae
3. Stylistics 'upside down': using stylistic analysis in the teaching of language and literature, Mick Short
4. Designing group work activities: a case study, Alan Durant
5. Reconstructing and deconstructing: drama texts in the classroom, Michael McCarthy
6. That's for your poetry book!, Alan Maley
7. Picking holes: close procedures in prose, Anita Weston
8. Learner autonomy and literature teaching, Barbara Sinclair
9. Making the subtle difference: literature and non-literature in the classroom, Guy Cook
10. 'Interfacing' language and literature: with special reference to the teaching of British cultural studies, Mao Sihui
11. 'Viewer, I married him': literature through video, Anthony Jennings
12. Common ground; incorporating new literatures in English in language and literature teaching, Malachi Edwin Vethamani

Bibliography
Index

Biography

Carter, Ronald; Mcrae, John