Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning

Learning a foreign language facilitates the most intimate access one can get to the culture and society of another language community. The process of learning a foreign language always involves intercultural levels of engagement between the languages and cultures concerned. This series is not limited to the field of applied linguistics but also includes relevant research from linguistic anthropology, language learning pedagogy, translation studies and language philosophy.

Ana Gonçalves Matos is Associate Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, and a researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies). Her research interests include intercultural education; teaching and learning languages, cultures and literatures; translation; intercultural citizenship education; and education through the Arts.

Contents: Reading literary texts as third place and significance for pedagogy – Reading asymmetries and cultural asymmetries – Virtual participation, transformation and imagination – Reader-response and aesthetic experience – Literature and foreign language intercultural pedagogy; individual and collective identities; reality and literary experience – Pedagogical criteria; modes of reading; text choice and a reading model – Classroom experience. Inhaltsverzeichnis