All You Can Read: Literature for Heterogeneous Groups of Learners - Einzelansicht

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 08:30-10:00

Please note that if you do not come to the first meeting, you run the risk of losing your place on the course.

In this class students will discover the great potential that literary texts offer for teaching and learning in the heterogeneous EFL class: they can be fun, thought provoking, moving, challenging – and promote language learning. I’d like to encourage future teachers to look at short forms (poems and short stories), extracts from literary texts as well as full-length novels to explore their potential for teenage readers and young adults. We shall also be dealing with questions of choosing age-appropriate texts and film clips for heterogeneous classes, trying out creative methods, exploring and designing text-based and response-based tasks. As well as explicitly targeting language skills, this class also involves issues of cultural and intercultural learning, as every text is culturally saturated, and as every reader draws on values and notions acquired in cultural contexts.

For those students who wish to adopt the teacher’s role and teach a text of their own choice to young adults, we also offer you the opportunity to participate in a class for international learners of English. These lessons are part of the project ‘PETE’ (Peer-Teaching and Peer-Coaching) that is conducted in cooperation with the Sprachlehrinstitut (SLI) and an additional tutorial. If you would like to participate in the PETE project as Forschungsprojekt to obtain additional credit points (6 LP for MEd 2014 PFP, 3 LP for MEd 2014 M-ENG 4) please sign up under http://buchung.sli.uni-wuppertal.de/angebote/aktueller_zeitraum/_PETE_Tutorial.html.

For further information on PETE, please contact the tutors Lea Steinkuhle and Susannah Ziegler ppete@uni-wuppertal.de or myself diehr@uni-wuppertal.de

Required:

The following titles must be purchased and read before the beginning of term:

- Hamid, Mohsin (2007). The Reluctant Fandamentalist. London: Penguin.

- Shamsie, Kamila (2017). Home Fire. London: Bloomsbury.

Further texts (poems, stories, journal articles) will be made available throughout the course.

For a theoretical foundation we will draw on the following title which should also be purchased before the beginning of term:

- Hallet, Wolfgang/Surkamp, Carola/Krämer, Ulrich (Hrsg.) (2015). Literaturkompetenzen Englisch. Seelze: Klett Kallmeyer.

Please register via WUSEL between 19.02.2018 to 04.03.2018.
Registrations before or after this time will not be considered.

LPO 2003/BA: Completion of “Introduction to TEFL”, GLS A and B.

MEd 2011, MEd 2014: Successful completion of the D module as part of your BA.

2 LP: presentation (pair or group work; incl. a handout)

3 LP: presentation (pair or group work; incl. a handout) plus a written summary critique

6 LP: tutorial in the PETE programme, lesson in the PETE programme, presentation (incl. a handout) plus written exam based on a text of your own choice and teaching experience

10 LP: lesson in the PETE programme, presentation (incl. a handout) plus written documentation (30 pages)

LPO 2003: D1 / D2

Kombi BA: D

Kombi-BA Optionalbereich (Profil Bildungswissenschaften ANG 102, Challenges and Chances in TEFL, Teil B, ehemals Kompetenzfeld V)

MEd 11: EN II

MEd 14 Lehramt Grundschule: M-ENG 3 b

MEd 14 Lehramt Grundschule: M-ENG 3 b und M-ENG4 (plus optional: PETE ‘Forschungsprojekt’ in combination with the tutorial)

MEd 14 Lehramt Haupt-, Real-, Gesamtschule: M-ENG 6 b

MEd 14 Lehramt Gymnasium/Gesamtschule, BK: M-ENG 9 b

MEd 14 Lehramt Gymnasium/Gesamtschule, BK: M-ENG 9 b und PFP (PETE ‘Forschungsprojekt’ in combination with the tutorial)

MEd Sonderpädagogik 2017: SP-ANG-DID b