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Literature and Language Teaching

A Guide for Teachers and Trainers

By: Gillian Lazar

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Paperback | 29 March 1993

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Literature and Language Teaching is for teachers and trainers who want to incorporate literature into the language classroom. It 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 is designed to be self-contained so that users 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 as part of a training programme.

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"'Literature and Language Teaching' is a valuable resource for teachers....They may also find very practical and useful suggestions for classroom activities. Above all, the book is an excellent resource to organize teacher training sessions around a variety of tasks which are clearly explained and structured and pedagogically sound." Mireia Trenchs, The Canadian Modern Language Review

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Using literature in the language classroom: The issues	p. 1
What is literature?	p. 1
The reader and the text	p. 5
What is distinctive about the language of literature?	p. 8
Literary competence and the language classroom	p. 11
Why use literature in the language classroom?	p. 14
Approaches to using literature with the language learner	p. 22
An overview	p. 22
A language-based approach to using literature	p. 27
Stylistics in the classroom	p. 31
Literature as content: How far to go?	p. 35
Literature for personal enrichment: Involving students	p. 39
The role of metalanguage	p. 43
Selecting and evaluating materials	p. 48
Selecting texts	p. 48
Evaluating learning materials which make use of literary texts	p. 56
Reading literature cross-culturally	p. 62
Being a student	p. 62
A consideration of cultural aspects in texts	p. 65
Strategies for overcoming cultural problems	p. 67
Materials design and lesson planning: Novels and short stories	p. 71
Writing your own story	p. 71
Distinctive features of a short story	p. 72
Anticipating student problems when using a short story	p. 75
Planning a lesson for use with a short story	p. 77
Further tasks and activities for use with a short story	p. 83
Designing your own materials for use with a short story	p. 86
Using novels in the language classroom	p. 89
Materials design and lesson planning: Poetry	p. 94
Putting a poem back together again	p. 94
What is distinctive about poetry?	p. 96
Why use poetry with the language learner?	p. 99
Exploiting unusual language features	p. 101
Helping students with figurative meanings	p. 104
Using poetry with lower levels	p. 109
Using poetry to develop oral skills	p. 116
Using a poem with students at higher levels	p. 121
Anticipating student problems	p. 127
Further tasks and activities	p. 129
Materials design and lesson planning: Plays	p. 133
What is distinctive about plays?	p. 133
The language of a play	p. 134
The performance of a play	p. 135
Why use plays in the language learning classroom?	p. 136
Using play extracts to think about language in conversation	p. 138
Using play extracts to improve students' oral skills	p. 146
Using play extracts with lower levels	p. 152
Anticipating student problems	p. 155
Further activities for play extracts	p. 159
Using a whole play with students	p. 161
Reflecting on the literature lesson	p. 167
Thinking about observation	p. 167
General observation of the literature lesson	p. 170
Micro-tasks for reflecting on specific areas of teaching	p. 170
Observing a student	p. 176
Other ways of monitoring your teaching	p. 178
Literature and self-access	p. 179
What is a literature self-access centre?	p. 179
Why have a literature self-access centre?	p. 179
A simulation: First meeting for planning and setting up a literature self-access centre	p. 180
Second meeting for setting up a literature self-access	p. 182
Setting up a literature self-access centre: A case study	p. 182
Worksheets to guide students in their reading	p. 185
Answer key	p. 189
Trainer's notes	p. 216
Bibliography	p. 255
Appendix: Eveline by James Joyce	p. 259
Index	p. 263
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