1st Edition

Teaching Literature in the World Language Classroom A Practical Guide that Uses Bloom’s Taxonomy to Enhance Learning

By Kelly Comfort, Abigail Scharf Copyright 2025
130 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Teaching Literature in the World Language Classroom presents a five-stage methodology for teaching literature in language curriculum that repurposes Bloom’s original and revised taxonomy to promote the language acquisition process and spark other types of learning. The first step of text selection, preparation, and initiation asks students to: recognize familiar words, structures, and... Read more

Preface: In Defense of Teaching Literature in the World Language Classroom

Introduction: Repurposing Bloom’s Taxonomy for Teaching Literature in the World Language Classroom          

Chapter 1: Text Selection, Preparation, and Initiation: Recognize, Contextualize, Remember

Chapter 2: Beginning Literary Analysis: Describe, Identify, Understand

Chapter 3: Intermediate Literary Analysis: Interpret, Analyze, Examine

Chapter 4: Advanced Literary Analysis: Synthesize, Compare, Evaluate

Chapter 5: Reflective and Creative Engagement: Relate, Create, Produce

Conclusion: From Theory to Practice—Applying Our Methodology to a Sample Literary Text

Index

Biography

Kelly Comfort holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Davis. She is a professor of Spanish in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Abigail Scharf has completed her B.A. in Spanish and psychology from the University of Miami and her M.S. in applied languages and intercultural studies from the Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a J.D. at The George Washington University Law School.