Rehumanizing the Language Curriculum

ISBN-13: 9781433182365 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Megan M. Echevarría

Opis

This volume brings together work by renowned scholars in the field of foreign/second/heritage languages and literatures, who employ a variety of scholarly tools to examine opportunities associated with literature as a force for rehumanizing and invigorating target language (TL) education in the 21st century.

Recenzje

"Rehumanizing the Language Curriculum is an ambitious, wide-ranging, yet readable collection of chapters which makes us rediscover the role of literature in language education. Addressing current issues such as intercultural communication, ecology, and diversity, this book proves the practicality and versatility of literature. In the gloomy educational environment in which pedagogical effects are mistakenly visualized statistically, uniformly, or even financially, the multifaceted approaches illustrated in this volume are a must for language teachers and scholars in any context." -Masayuki Teranishi, University of Hyogo, Japan

Spis treści

List of Figures - List of Tables - Megan M. Echevarría: Introduction: Reconcilable Differences - Claire Kramsch: Poetic Equivalence: Key to the Development of Symbolic Competence - Guy Cook: On the Recitation of Poetry by Language Learners - Geoff Hall: Literature for Diversity in Formal Foreign Language Learning - Per Urlaub: Literary Reading in the Second Language: Blending Perspectives from Applied Linguistics and Literary Theory - Janice Bland: Deep Reading for In- Depth Learning - Elizabeth Bernhardt: Understanding Literary Texts in a Second Language: Instances of Advanced and Superior Comprehension - Megan M. Echevarría: Scaffolding Literature Education in Communicative and Intercultural Context - Christian Jones: Literary Dialogues as Models of Conversation: Evaluating Potential - Mark Anthony Darhower/Dawn Smith: Meeting Them Where They Are: Using Differentiated Integrated Performance Assessments to Build Interpersonal Speaking Skills in the L2 Literature Class - Index - About the Authors.

O autorze

Megan M. Echevarría (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is Professor of Spanish and Film Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Dr. Echevarria specializes in Hispanic literary, cultural, and film studies. Her publications include articles and book chapters on literary and film studies and a literary reader for ¡Anda! Intermedio program (2010, 2013).