Literature and Language Teaching: A Guide for Teachers and TrainersLiterature and Language Teaching is for teachers and trainers who want to incorporate literature into the language classroom. The book can be used as a resource by trainers working with groups of teachers, by teacher development groups or by teachers working on their own. Literature and Language Teaching contains tasks and activities which:" encourage reflection on some of the issues and debates involved in using literature in the language classroom " explore different approaches to using literature with teenage and adult learners at all levels " suggest criteria for selecting and evaluating materials for classroom use" identify some of the distinctive features of novels, short stories, poems and plays so that these can be successfully exploited in the classroom " provide a wide range of practical ideas and activities for developing materials which teachers can use with their own learners " encourage the observation and assessment of lessons using literacy texts " draw on literary texts in English by a variety of authors from all over the world Each section of the book is designed to be self-contained so that users of the book can select what is most relevant to their purpose. A key to the tasks and activities is provided, as well as guidelines for teacher trainers which suggest different ways of using the activities in the book as part of a training programme. |
Contents
Approaches to using literature with the | 22 |
Selecting and evaluating materials | 48 |
Reading literature crossculturally | 62 |
Poetry | 94 |
Plays | 133 |
Reflecting on the literature lesson | 167 |
Literature and selfaccess | 179 |
Answer key | 189 |
Trainers notes | 216 |
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Common terms and phrases
Activity type Andrea del Sarto approach ask students Athol Fugard background information Biswas brainstorm Brideshead Revisited Brumfit chapter characters checklist Chinua Achebe choral reading complete course cultural background D. H. Lawrence decide described designing materials dialogue difficult E. E. Cummings encourage students English evaluation Eveline example exploit feel free indirect speech genre Gwendolen help students ideas interpretation involves Jerry kind language classroom language learner language teachers lesson plan linguistic linguistic features literary competence literary texts literature self-access centre Little Miss Muffet look meaning metalanguage metaphors Naomi Lewis novel Observation task pairs or groups paragraphs particular phrases poem poetry provide students questions read the text reader reasons reflect relevant sentences short story Solomon Grundy Students are given students read stylistic analysis Task 18 tasks and activities teaching themes trainers tuffet understanding vocabulary words worksheets write