Bridging the Humor Barrier - Humor Competency Training in English Language Teaching

Humor competence in the target language is an overlooked tool for English language learners to communicate confidently and proficiently in English. In this innovative edited collection, language teachers and researchers from around the globe share their latest research on helping learners to overcome the humor barrier.

List of contents

Introduction

John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard

Part 1: Humor Competence Development Outside the Class

Chapter 1¿"Working Backwards from Funny: Preparing Language Learners to Use Humor in Intercultural Encounters"

Anne Pomerantz

Chapter 2¿"Humor Competency: The Role of Sociopragmatic Knowledge in Expressions of Humor in Intercultural Interactions"

Jules Winchester

Chapter 3¿"Feeling Inadequate: Lessons from Cross-Cultural Adaptation to Help Learners Get over Inadequacies in Humor Competency"

Maria Ramirez de Arellano

Part 2: Integrated Humor Instruction

Chapter 4¿"Humor-Integrated Language Learning (HILL): Teaching with and about Humor"

Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza

Chapter 5¿"Junior High English Textbook Interactional Humor: Pragmatic Possibilities"

Scott Gardner

Chapter 6¿"Reading Jokes in English: How English Language Learners Appreciate and Comprehend Humor"

Nadezda Pimenova

Part 3: Explicit Humor Competency Training

Chapter 7¿"Humor Competency Training for Sarcasm and Jocularity"

Caleb Prichard and John Rucynski Jr.

Chapter 8¿"Theory, Content Knowledge, Input, Output: Elements in the Teaching and Learning of Humor Competence"

Richard Hodson

Chapter 9¿"Using Diaries to Research and Develop Humor Competence in a Second Language"

Maria Petkova

Chapter 10¿"Training English Language Learners to Recognize English Satirical News"

John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard

About the author

Edited by John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard - Contributions by Anne Pomerantz; Jules Winchester; Maria Ramirez de Arellano; Mohammad Ali Heidari-Shahreza; Scott Gardner; Nadezda Pimenova; Richard Hodson and Maria Petkova

Product details

• Authors: John Prichard Rucynski
• Assisted by: Caleb Prichard (Editor), John Rucynski (Editor), John Jr. Rucynski (Editor), Rucynski John (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781498592024
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9202-4
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, Sociolinguistics, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, Educational: English language & literacy, ELT: teaching theory & methods, Educational: Language, literature and literacy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts