Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning: Exploring New Directions (Intercultural Studies and Foreign Language Learning, Band 9) - Softcover

Goncalves Matos, Ana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034307209 ISBN 13: 9783034307208

Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study – speculative in nature – about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that reading literary texts may open up a passage to a ‘third place’, a space in which a student can learn more about their own identity and ultimately arrive at a more nuanced understanding of otherness. Some of the skills implicated in the construction of textual understanding can facilitate intercultural learning, opening up opportunities for a pedagogical approach in which the reading of literary texts develops a student’s intercultural perspective and fosters reflection on cultural difference. The author explores the pedagogical potential of the book’s theoretical premises through a sustained classroom-based example.

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Ana Gonçalves Matos is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and a researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). Her research interests include intercultural education; teaching and learning languages, cultures and literatures; translation; intercultural citizenship education; and education through the Arts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3034307209
• ISBN 13: 9783034307208
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Deutschland