Using literature in English language education : challenging reading for 8-18 year olds /
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword, Peter Hunt (Professor Emeritus Cardiff University, UK)
- 1. Introduction: The Challenge of Literature, Janice Bland (Nord University, Norway)
- Part I: Multimodal Challenges
- 2. The Graphic Novel: Brian Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Wonderstruck and The Marvels, Marek Oziewicz (University of Minnesota, USA)
- 3. Playscript and Screenplay: Creativity with J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World, Janice Bland (Nord University, Norway)
- 4. The Wordless Picturebook: Literacy in Multilingual Contexts and David Wiesner's Worlds, Evelyn Arizpe (University of Glasgow, UK) and Sadie Ryan (University of Glasgow, UK)
- 5. The Picturebook in Elementary ELT: Multiple Literacies with Bob Staake's Bluebird, Gail Ellis (British Council
- EU Region)
- 6. Story Apps: The Challenge of Interactivity, Sonja Brunsmeier (University of Education-Tyrol, Austria) and Annika Kolb (University of Education-Freiburg, Germany)
- 7. Transmedial reading : Tim Winton's Lockie Leornard trilogy, Michael Prusse
- Part 2: Provocative and compelling
- 8. Literature in language education: challenges for theory building, Werner Delanoy
- 9. Diversity in love-themed fiction: John Green's The Fault in Our Stars and David Levithan's Princes, Johanna Marks and Thorsten Merse
- 10. Popular culture head on: Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, Janice Bland
- 11. Thought experiments with science fiction: Ursurla Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Jürgen Wehrmann
- 12. Environmental havoc in teen fiction: Speculating futures, Jean Webb
- 13. Hamlet, Ophelia and teenage rage: Michael Lesslie's Prince of Denmark, Tzina Kalogirou
- Part 3: Embracing the challenges
- 14. Negotiating the challenges of reading literature: teachers reporting on their practice, Sam Duncan and Amos Paran
- 15. Afterword: thoughts on the way ahead, Geoff Hall.