[Edling] Query about Literature Research in English Teaching

[Ashira Greene]

Hello,

Good places to start would be looking into stylistics and reviewing Paran,
A. (Ed.) (2006) Literature in Language Teaching and Learning. Alexandria:
TESOL.

Paran's 2008 state of the art article reviews and range of research on
methods and experiences teaching literature as well. If you want to move
more heavily in the direction of stylistics, look if Watson and Zyngier's
edited book on the subject.

Hope this is helpful! I'm writing a thesis on the teaching of English
literature in French secondary schools.

Warmly,

Ashira
On Sep 28, 2015 9:32 AM, "Francis Hult" <francis.hult at englund.lu.se> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>
>
> I am currently teaching a course that prepares pre-service English
> teachers to do an advanced independent thesis project.  This includes, as
> might be typical in TESOL programs, the possibility of students doing
> field-based classroom research about teaching, (quasi-)experimental studies
> about SLA, and policy analysis of curricular documents.  Due to various
> aspects of institutional history and Swedish traditions about the subject
> of English, it also needs to include the possibility of using literary
> analysis as an inroad to research about English teaching.  For example, how
> does an analysis of Achebe's *Things Fall Apart *using postcolonial
> theory inform research-based practice?
>
>
>
> I see some possibilities.  For example, one could analyze the Swedish
> national curriculum for where and how it provides for the teaching of
> postcolonial themes and literary works.  The analysis of the novel then
> serves to illustrate how literary research informs careful and systematic
> teaching of a particular novel in relation to the spaces in the curriculum.
>
>
>
> As a policy researcher myself, I am familiar with scholarly work about
> policy analysis of curricula, but much less so about the literary angle.  I
> am definitely open to other possibilities than the example of policy
> analysis integrated with literary analysis (that's just the nail I want to
> hit with my own hammer).  I am wondering if anyone on the list is familar
> with the application of literary theory/analysis as research-based teaching
> (especially in ESL/EFL).  It would like to provide the students with some
> model articles so if anyone has suggestions about specific articles that do
> something along these lines, I would be grateful.
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Francis
>
>
> --
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> Associate Professor
> Centre for Languages and Literature
> Lund University
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