Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning

Exploring New Directions

Theo Harden, Arnd Witte, Ana Goncalves Matos

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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
20 December 2011

ELT background & reference material; Multicultural education; Teaching skills & techniques; Study & learning skills: general

Series: Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning

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.

By: Ana Goncalves Matos
Series edited by: Theo Harden, Arnd Witte
Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: New edition
Volume: 9
Dimensions: Height: 225mm, Width: 150mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9783034307208
ISBN 10: 3034307209
Series: Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 20 December 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Reading literary texts as third place and significance for pedagogy – Reading asymmetries and cultural asymmetries – Virtual participation, transformation and imagination – Reader-response and aesthetic experience – Literature and foreign language intercultural pedagogy; individual and collective identities; reality and literary experience – Pedagogical criteria; modes of reading; text choice and a reading model – Classroom experience.

Ana Gonçalves Matos is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and a researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). Her research interests include intercultural education; teaching and learning languages, cultures and literatures; translation; intercultural citizenship education; and education through the Arts.