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Anglophone Literature in Second Language Teacher Education proposes new ways that literature, and more generally culture, can be used to educate future teachers of English as a second language.
Arguing that the way literature is used in language teacher education can be transformed, the book foregrounds transnational approaches and shows how these can be applied in literature and cultural instruction to encourage intercultural awareness in future language educators. It draws on theoretical discussions from literary and cultural studies as well as applied linguistics and is an example how these cross-discipline conversations can take place, and thus help make Second-language teacher education (SLTE) programs more responsive to the challenges faced by future English-language teachers. Written in the idiom of literary scholarship, the book uses ideas of intercultural studies that have gained widespread support at research level, yet have not affected literature-cultural curricula in SLTE.
As the first interdisciplinary study to suggest how SLTE programs can respond with curricula, this book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, L2 and foreign language education, teacher education and post-graduate TESOL. It has universal appeal, addressing teaching faculty in any third-level institution that prepares language teachers and includes literary studies in their curriculum, as well as administrators in such organizations.
List of contents
1. Introduction
by Justin Quinn and Gabriela Kleckova
2. Teaching English as an International Language: Implications for Literature Courses in Teacher Preparation Programs
by Aya Matsuda
3. The Shifting Faces of English Language Teaching
by Denise E. Murray and MaryAnn Christison
4. Interculturalism and Literary Representation
by Justin Quinn
5. Moving Between Worlds: Pedagogies of Spatial and Cultural Mobility in Children's Literature
by Gül Bilge Han
6. Literature through Culture x Person x Situation
by Charles Hall
7. Literature, Political Conflict and Intercultural Understanding: Teaching the Northern Irish Troubles
by Charles I. Armstrong
8. Cultural Intelligence and Literature
by Brad Vice
9. Languages at Play: Teaching Intercultural Awareness with J. M. Coetzee
by Charlotta Elmgren
10. Immigrant Literature and Its Use in Second-Language Teacher Education
by Jean Marie Schultz
11. Ishiguro and Politeness Theory
by Brad Vice
12. World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and Literature
by Veronika Quinn-Novotná and Jirina Dunková
13. Innovation in Second-Language Teacher Education
by Gabriela Kleckova
14. A New Intercultural Curriculum for Literature and Culture in English-Language Teacher Preparation
by Gabriela Kleckova, Justin Quinn, and Brad Vice
15. Conclusion
Summary
Anglophone Literature in Second Language Teacher Education proposes new ways that literature, and more generally culture, can be used to educate future teachers of English as a second language.
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'...[The book's] innovative potential of 'cross-disciplinary conversations' (p. 16), providing insights into intercultural communication and challenging prevailing beliefs of approaching literature from the perspectives of applied linguistics, literary and cultural studies as well as foreign language education/ methodology (Fremdsprachendidaktik). With their compilation of articles investigating 'the broader theoretical and practical implications of such an intercultural approach in SLTE' (p. 19), the editors give a fresh impetus to the first, often university-based phase of teacher training and promote an interculturally reflective preservice teacher education.'
- ELT Today
