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Literature, Literacies and Language Learning
Postgraduate | TAS-ESG721 | 2023
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Literature, Literacies and Language Learning
About this subject
On successful completion of this Unit the learner will be able to:
ILO1 Evaluate the role that literature can play in English language teaching in specific ESL, EAL and EFL contexts.
ILO2 Synthesise your understanding of the complex ways in which second language acquisition and contemporary methodologies for using literature interact through your critical appraisal of current ELT theory.
ILO3 Plan and develop detailed classroom materials and resources that are culturally and linguistically appropriate for a specific TESOL context.
ILO4 Communicate your understanding of using literature in a TESOL context through your academic writing.
- What do we mean by ‘literature?
- Exploring the use of literature in the language classroom.
- Literacy in a second language context
- Narrative structure and the linguistic structure of texts
- Novels, short stories and poems
- Multiliteracies and mutli-modality and language teaching and learning
- Film texts: Opportunities for language learning and teaching
- Drama in the language classroom
- Work on Assignment
- Visual literacy and language learning and teaching
- Critical literacy and language learning and teaching
- The four roles of the reader
- Considering ‘the cultural’ in using literature for language teaching
- Postcolonial approaches to literacy
- Final thoughts and reflections on the unit.
This unit explores the many ways that literature can be utilised within a TESOL context. Literature as a focus for English language teaching will include a range of texts such as poems, novels, non-fiction works, plays and short stories. Multi-modal texts such as film, television series, animation and visual texts will also be considered as texts for English language teaching. Approaches to using literature in a TESOL context will include genre-based, critical, and post-colonial perspectives.
- Rationale and two sequential lesson plans using a text (30%)
- Written essay (70%)
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Entry requirements
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Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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