Reading Between the Lines: Perspectives on Foreign Language LiteracyPeter C. Patrikis This book presents a collection of new and stimulating approaches to reading in a foreign language. The contributors to the volume all place reading at the heart of learning a foreign language and entering a foreign culture, and they consider issues and methods of language education from such diverse perspectives as cognitive theory, applied linguistics, technology as hermeneutic, history, literary theory, and cross-cultural analysis. The contributors—teachers of French, German, Greek, Japanese, and Spanish—call for language teachers and theorists to refocus on the importance of reading skills. Emphasizing the process of reading as analyzing and understanding another culture, they document various practical methods, including the use of computer technology for enhancing language learning and fostering cross-cultural understanding. |
Contents
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3 Literacy as a New Organizing Principle for Foreign Language Education | 40 |
The Poetic Function in the Era of Communicative Language Teaching | 60 |
5 Reading Between the Cultural Lines | 74 |
6 Reading and Technology in Less Commonly Taught Languages and Cultures | 99 |
Literacy in the Space of Virtual Encounters | 118 |
Translation Simultaneity and Duplicity in the Foreign Literature Classroom | 144 |
9 Ethics Politics and Advocacy in the Foreign Language Classroom | 159 |
List of Contributors | 169 |
Index | 173 |
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