Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom

✍ Scribed by Masayuki Teranishi, Yoshifumi Saito, Katie Wales (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 348
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Recent Developments in Uses of Literature in Language Teaching....Pages 13-25
Literary Texts as Authentic Materials for Language Learning: The Current Situation in Japan....Pages 26-40
Bridging the Gap between L1 Education and L2 Education....Pages 41-60
From Reading to Writing: Creative Stylistics as a Methodology for Bridging the Gap between Literary Appreciation and Creative Writing in ELT....Pages 61-74
Unpacking and Evaluating Properties in Conceptual Metaphor Domain Mapping: Cognitive Stylistics as a Language Learning Tool....Pages 75-93
Playing with Words and Pictures: Using Post-modernist Picture Books as a Resource with Teenage and Adult Language Learners....Pages 94-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Achievement Tests for Literary Reading in General EFL Reading Courses....Pages 115-130
A Stylistic Approach to Digital Texts: Teaching Literary Texts through New Media....Pages 131-139
The Effects of Literary Texts on Students’ Sentence Recognition: Translation Tasks and Comprehension Tasks....Pages 140-150
Benefits of Teaching Speech/Thought Presentation: Developing Language Awareness through Reading Austen and Eliot....Pages 151-166
Teaching English Novels in the EFL Classroom....Pages 167-181
Using Short Stories in University Composition Classrooms....Pages 182-196
Translation of Japanese Poems into English: Literature in the First Language as a Motive to Communicate in a Second Language....Pages 197-211
Literary Reading Circles and Short Essay Activities for English Learning among Medical Students....Pages 212-228
The Role of Literature in Foreign Language Learning....Pages 229-247
The First Step towards a Critical Perspective: The Practice of Evidence-Based Explanation of a Literary Text in Book Clubs....Pages 248-259
The Use of a Literary Text in an Extensive Reading Programme: Reading Murakami’s ‘Super-Frog Saves Tokyo’ in the World Café....Pages 260-279
Increasing Motivation and Building Bridges to Content with Graded Readers....Pages 280-297
Pedagogical Stylistics in an ELT Teacher Training Setting: A Case Study....Pages 298-315
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Epilogue: Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom....Pages 316-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-329

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