Literature and Language Teaching
A Guide for Teachers and Trainers

This book provides practical support for incorporating literature into the language classroom.

Gillian Lazar (Author)

9780521406512, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 28 January 1993

284 pages
22.4 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.475 kg

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. The 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.

Subject Areas: ELT: teaching theory & methods [EBA]