Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom

Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom
Author: Masayuki Teranishi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2015-08-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137443669

This book examines how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices in an EFL classroom. It takes a multi-faceted approach to how English language teaching and learning can best be developed through presentation and exploration of literary texts.

Learning with Literature in the EFL Classroom

Learning with Literature in the EFL Classroom
Author: Werner Delanoy
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9783631647103

This comprehensive introduction to literature learning in EFL contexts pays attention to both theoretical and practical concerns. It focuses on a wide range of literary genres, different age and ability groups, and gives suggestions for the future of the field. Its readership comprises language teachers, university students and academics.

Using Literature to Teach English as a Second Language

Using Literature to Teach English as a Second Language
Author: Membrive, Veronica
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2020-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1799846717

Innovation has replaced stereotypical and old methods as an attempt to make English language teaching and learning appealing, effective, and simple. However, teaching a second language through literature may be a paramount tool to consolidate not only students’ lexical and grammatical competences, but also for the development of their cultural awareness and broadening of their knowledge through interaction and collaboration that foster collective learning. Despite past difficulties, literature’s position in relation to language teaching can be revendicated and revalued. Using Literature to Teach English as a Second Language is an essential research publication that exposes the current state of this methodological approach and observes its reverberations, usefulness, strengths, and weaknesses when used in a classroom where English is taught as a second language. In this way, this book will provide updated tools to explore teaching and learning through the most creative and enriching manifestations of one language – literature. Featuring a range of topics such as diversity, language learning, and plurilingualism, this book is ideal for academicians, curriculum designers, administrators, education professionals, researchers, and students.

Reading Authentic English Picture Books in the Primary School EFL Classroom

Reading Authentic English Picture Books in the Primary School EFL Classroom
Author: Julia Reckermann
Publisher: Fremdsprachendidaktik inhalts- und lernerorientiert / Foreign Language Pedagogy - content- and learner-oriented
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9783631756461

This book deals with reading authentic English picture books in the EFL classroom. The author conducted a mixed methods study of Year 4 learners' reading comprehension, reading strategies and FL development. The results suggest that teachers should use more challenging and authentic reading tasks with young EFL learners.

Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing

Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing
Author: I.S.P. Nation
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008-10-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135857385

Using a framework based on principles of teaching and learning, this guide for teachers and teacher trainees provides a wealth of suggestions for helping learners at all levels of proficiency develop their reading and writing skills and fluency. By following these suggestions, which are organized around four strands – meaning-focused input, meaning-focused output, language-focused learning, and fluency development – teachers will be able to design and present a balanced program for their students. Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing, and its companion text, Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking, are similar in format and the kinds of topics covered, but do not need to be used together. Drawing on research and theory in applied linguistics, their focus is strongly hands-on, featuring easily applied principles, a large number of useful teaching techniques, and guidelines for testing and monitoring, All Certificate, Diploma, Masters and Doctoral courses for teachers of English as a second or foreign language include a teaching methods component. The texts are designed for and have been field tested in such programs.

Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics

Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics
Author: Eric H. Roth
Publisher: Chimayo Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2010-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0982617801

This innovative ESL/EFL textbook helps advanced English language learners develop conversation skills and improve fluency by sharing experiences, reflecting on their lives, and discussing proverbs and quotations. The oral skills English textbook includes 45 thematic chapters, over 1,350 questions, 500 vocabulary words, 250 proverbs and American idioms, and 500 quotations. Designed for both adult education and intensive English language students, the conversations and activities deepen critical thinking skills and develop speaking skills essential to success in community college and university programs. Compelling Conversations has been used in classrooms in over 40 countries, recommended by English Teaching Professional magazine, adopted by conversation clubs and private English tutors, and enjoyed by thousands of English students.

Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment

Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment
Author: Janice Bland
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-07-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144115339X

Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children's literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picturebooks, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction. It examines the opportunities of children's literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children's literature as a gate-opener for canonised adult literature; the rich patterning of children's literature supporting Creative Writing; the potential of interactive drama projects. Close readings of texts at the centre of contemporary literary scholarship, yet largely unknown in the EFL world, provide an invaluable guide for teacher educators and student teachers, including works by David Almond, Anthony Browne, Philip Pullman and J.K.Rowling. Introducing a range of genres and their significance for EFL teaching, this study makes an important new approach accessible for EFL teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.

Literature and Language Teaching

Literature and Language Teaching
Author: Gillian Lazar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 1993-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 052140651X

Literature and Language Teaching is for teachers and trainers who want to incorporate literature into the language classroom. It is suitable for teacher trainers, teacher development groups or teachers working on their own. This book contains tasks and activities which encourage reflection on some of the issues and debates involved in using literature in the language classroom and explore different approaches to using literature with teenage and adult learners at all levels. It suggests criteria for selecting and evaluating materials for classroom use and identifies some of the distinctive features of novels, short stories, poems and plays so that these can be successfully exploited in the classroom. A wide range of practical ideas and activities for developing materials is provided. Tasks also encourage the observation and assessment of lessons using literacy texts, and draw on English language material by a variety of authors from all over the world.

Teaching Literature

Teaching Literature
Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1991
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This book is part of a series which is concerned with teaching techniques and problems at a practical level, providing teachers with guidance and assistance in the classroom. This volume examines the place of literature in the EFL classroom and contains suggestions for activities designed to stimulate an interest in literature among the students. Both beginners and advanced classes are catered for, and there is a section on the place of literature in the curriculum, and suggestions on the way in which texts should be chosen and courses structured in order to evoke the most positive and interested response from pupils. [abebooks]