Overview
- Examines the role played by literature in language learning from a practical perspective
- Shows how literature can support the development of creativity, higher order thinking skills, and other ‘soft skills’ needed by students across the curriculum
- Presents reading strategies which are essential to interpreting literature, and which are often neglected when teaching L2 reading skills
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- language arts
- ESL
- English as a Second Language
- TESOL
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
- EFL
- English as a Foreign Language
- ELT
- English Language Teaching
- literary canon
- critical literacy
- literary theory
- ecocriticism
- language technology
- globalisation
- intercultural communication
- creative writing
- literary diction
- english
About this book
Reviews
“I believe both language teachers and literature instructors can benefit from this book to a great extent. I particularly recommend the book to those who teach language skills courses, creative writing and EAP courses and to those who are interested in new digital literacies.” (Derya Altınmakas, BAAL News, Issue 118, 2021)
“This is an exciting new volume, in which the role of literature in language pedagogy is explored comprehensively from a broad range of perspectives. Each chapter offers fresh insight. While discussion about this important theme seemed to have somewhat stalled after the 1990s, this timely collection brings it back to life with renewed energy and makes it relevant to the 21st century. An invaluable resource to anyone involved in language teaching and learning.” (Mario Saraceni, Reader in English and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth, UK)
“Literature as a means to teaching language is a fairly old idea. But what is unique about this book is that it shows ways of learning language through interdisciplinary approaches to literature and culture. The notion of literature the book espouses helps study language not only syntactically but by reading text via literary theories. This is performed with equal attention to New Englishes, multimodal texts and reading communities. A must-read for specialists and non-specialists alike.” (Ashis Sengupta, Professor of English, University of North Bengal, India)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jeneen Naji is Digital Media Faculty in the Department of Media Studies in Maynooth University, Ireland.
Ganakumaran Subramaniam is the Head of School and Professor at the School of Education, University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.
Goodith White retired as Director of the Applied Language Centre, University College Dublin, Ireland in 2015, and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Approaches to Literature for Language Learning
Authors: Jeneen Naji, Ganakumaran Subramaniam, Goodith White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15256-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15255-0Published: 26 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15256-7Published: 10 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 222
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Language and Literature, Language Education, Language Teaching, Literacy, English, Digital Humanities