Literature and language teaching : a guide for teachers and trainers

Literature and Language Teaching is for teachers and trainers who want to incorporate literature into the language classroom. The book can be used as a resource by trainers working with groups of teachers, by teacher development groups or by teachers working on their own. Literature and Language Teaching contains tasks and activities which: • encourage reflection on some of the issues and debates involved in using literature in the language classroom • explore different approaches to using literature with teenage and adult learners at all levels • suggest criteria for selecting and evaluating materials for classroom use • identify some of the distinctive features of novels, short stories, poems and plays so that these can be successfully exploited in the classroom • provide a wide range of practical ideas and activities for developing materials which teachers can use with their own learners • encourage the observation and assessment of lessons using literacy texts • draw on literary texts in English by a variety of authors from all over the world Each section of the book is designed to be self-contained so that users of the book can select what is most relevant to their purpose. A key to the tasks and activities is provided, as well as guidelines for teacher trainers which suggest different ways of using the activities in the book as part of a training programme.