Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning : Exploring New Directions.
Title:
Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning : Exploring New Directions.
Author:
Goncalves Matos, Ana.
ISBN:
9783035302493
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (220 pages)
Series:
Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning ; v.9
Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgements ix -- Introduction: 'The Door' 1 -- Chapter One Reading as third place 9 -- Introduction 9 -- A reading of 'Names' 12 -- Literary thirdness 18 -- Reading asymmetries and cultural asymmetries 22 -- Virtual participation, transformation and imagination 29 -- Reader-response and aesthetic experience - the place of the reader 45 -- Chapter Two Literature and intercultural foreign language education 57 -- Introduction 57 -- The foreign language reader 58 -- Individual-and-collective 63 -- Teaching literature in a foreign language 71 -- Reality and literary experience 74 -- Literature in education 83 -- Chapter Three Pedagogical criteria and a reading model 105 -- Introduction 105 -- Modes of reading 106 -- Text choice 111 -- Literature and critical cultural awareness 123 -- A model for intercultural reading in foreign language education 129 -- Chapter Four The classroom: A threshold 137 -- Introduction 137 -- The classroom 138 -- Principles in practice - an experience in the classroom 145 -- A module: Nomen est Omen 149 -- The voices of the readers 167 -- Conclusions: A door 179 -- Bibliography 183 -- Index 203.
Abstract:
This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study - speculative in nature - about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that reading literary texts may open up a passage to a 'third place', a space in which a student can learn more about their own identity and ultimately arrive at a more nuanced understanding of otherness. Some of the skills implicated in the construction of textual understanding can facilitate intercultural learning, opening up opportunities for a pedagogical approach in which the reading of literary texts develops a student's intercultural perspective and fosters reflection on cultural difference. The author explores the pedagogical potential of the book's theoretical premises through a sustained classroom-based example.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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