Taking Literature and Language Learning Online: New Perspectives on Teaching, Research and Technology

✍ Scribed by Sandra Stadler-Heer; Amos Paran (editors)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The use of literary texts in language classrooms is firmly established, but new questions arise with the transfer to remote teaching and learning. How do we teach literature online? How do learners react to being taught literature online? Will new genres emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic? Is the literary canon changing?
This volume celebrates the vitality of literary response to the pandemic and presents research into the phenomena observed in this evolving field. One strand of the book discusses literary outputs stimulated by the pandemic as well as past pandemics. Another strand looks at the pedagogy of engaging learners with literature online, examining learners of different ages and of different proficiency levels and different educational backgrounds, including teacher education. Finally, a third strand looks at the affordances of various technologies for teaching online and the way they interact with literature and with language learning. Teaching literature online can be quite static, with faculty resorting to tried and true lecturing strategies; the contributions in this volume present numerous alternatives and provide research-based grounding for their implementation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 Literary Responses in Times of Crisis
1 Literary Narratives as Recordings of the Pandemic Present: The New York Times Magazine’s Decameron Project (Ingrid Gessn
2 Pandemic Literature: What It Is, Why It Should Be Taught and How (Engelbert Thaler )
Part 2 Researching and Teaching Literature for/to Young Learners
3 Identifying Quality in Asynchronous, Pre-recorded Picturebook Read-Alouds for Children Learning English as a Foreign Langu
4 Digital Picturebooks in Times of Crisis: From Picturebooks about Covid-19 to Developing Critical Environmental Literacies (T
Part 3 Researching and Teaching Literature in Online Teacher Education
5 Exploiting the Educational Potential of Literature in English Language Teaching: Continuity and Change in Digital Literatur
6 Conducting Story-Based Activities in Times of Social Distancing (Annett Kaminski)
Part 4 Tools and Concepts for Teaching Literature Online
7 Implementing a Collaborative Reading Project Online: Solutions for a Pedagogically Meaningful Virtual Workshop ( Jennifer Sc
8 Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Approach for Meaningful Learning: Alternative Implementations of Technology in the Li
9 Simple and Engaging Fiction for Adult Beginners (Pedro Malard Monteiro, Margaret Wilkinson and Martha Young-Scholten)
10 Annotating Literary Texts on Conceptboard: Philological Practice in the Digital Classroom (Verena Laschinger)
11 Writing the Future: Collaborative Creative Science-Fiction Writing in the Virtual EFL Classroom (Christian Ludwig and Eliz
Afterword: Closing Reflections on the Brave New World of Literature and Language Education Online (Geoff Hall)
Index