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FOREIGN LANGUAGES
&
THE LITERARY IN THE EVERYDAY
open lessons for
L2 literacy

FLLITE categories

What’s in a Name?

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Lesson Title: What’s in a Name?
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: C’est tout un poème
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: C’est tout un poème
Text Language: French
Text Author: Luks, Joanna
Genre: Poetry
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: What’s in a Name?
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Interpreting a writer’s mental images from grammatical metaphors and context. (An introduction to semiosis).
Writing: Expressing mental imagery in word play.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Detecting nouns used as adjectives.
Listening: Noticing rhyme schemes for sound-spelling relationships.
Writing: Using nouns as adjectives to characterize someone. / Creating a rhyme scheme.
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

Comment?!

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Lesson Title: Comment?! [ What?! ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: L’accent grave
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Sound Play, Word Play

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Text Title: L’accent grave
Text Language: French
Text Author: Prévert, Jacques
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Comment?! [ What?! ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Recognizing Platonic Forms. / Understanding the French notion of individualisme. / Evaluating worldview based on mental imagery of words.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Using decoding strategies for word forms.
Listening: Hesitation techniques.
Writing: Using play script conventions. / Generating a faux pas; clarifying a misunderstanding using negotiating language. / Controlling register.
Speaking: Performing playscripts.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Sound Play, Word Play

Un portrait chinois

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Lesson Title: Un portrait chinois [ A Chinese Portrait ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: The Proust and Pivot personality questionnaires
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

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Text Title: The Proust and Pivot personality questionnaires
Text Language: French
Text Author: Proust, Marcel / Pivot, Bernard
Genre: Portraits and Biographies
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Un portrait chinois [ A Chinese Portrait ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: The use of Chinese portraits in 19th century English popular culture and 20th century American and French television media. / Examining question forms and content that reveal tastes and aspirations.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Utilizing decoding strategies for reading comprehension. / Assessing personality based on evidence found in answers to questions.
Writing: Using noun phrases/clauses as information questions and a variety of noun forms as answers. / Linking ideas with punctuation.
Visualization: Selecting an image for symbolic representation.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

Envie de voyager

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Lesson Title: Envie de voyager [ Wanderlust ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: The Wanderer (Voyages de rêve)
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: The Wanderer (Voyages de rêve)
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous
Genre: Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Envie de voyager [ Wanderlust ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Comparing American and French students’ word associations for United States and France.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Finding metaphorical language in the text related to traveling and savouring.
Writing: Incorporating a metaphorical motif to enrich writing. Linking ideas with coordinating conjunctions; using mixed formatting: paragraph writing and telegraphic style.
Visualization: Including imagery to draw the reader’s attention.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

Respect et verité

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Lesson Title: Respect et verité [ Respect and Truth ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Three self-portraits
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

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Text Title: Three self-portraits
Text Language: French
Text Author: High school students in France and Poland
Genre: Portraits and Biographies / Descriptions
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Respect et verité [ Respect and Truth ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Background information on the Enlightenment values of self respect and honesty.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Identifying emotionally charged words and sentence structures for balancing honesty with self-respect.
Writing: Applying softening techniques for describing someone with respectful accuracy. / Controlling length by avoiding repeated words and redundant information.
Visualization: Including a photograph of the portrayed subject for verifying accuracy of description.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Perspective Play

Un peu de hareng fumé

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Lesson Title: Un peu de hareng fumé [ A Little Smoked Herring ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Petite lettre à la dérive / Le Hareng saur and accompanying monolgue fumiste / Recipe for marinated smoked herring
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Pragmatic Play

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Text Title: Petite lettre à la dérive / Le Hareng saur and accompanying monolgue fumiste / Recipe for marinated smoked herring
Text Language: French
Text Author: Cocteau, Jean / Cros, Charles / Coquelin cadet
Genre: Poetry / Recipes
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Un peu de hareng fumé [ A Little Smoked Herring ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Expanding comprehension of a text through visual and oral readings. / Learning food-based idioms.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Identifying genre conventions for prescriptive texts. / Noun countability and noun phrase structures with invariable de.
Writing: Following recipe conventions. / Writing a prescriptive text for a chosen audience on when and how to appreciate the resulting dish.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Pragmatic Play

La Ville et le graffiti

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Lesson Title: La Ville et le graffiti [ The City and Graffiti ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Graffiti from May ‘68 / Graffiti calligraphié: El Seed
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: Graffiti from May ‘68 / Graffiti calligraphié: El Seed
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous / Melia, Lisa
Genre: Signage and Graffiti / Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: La Ville et le graffiti [ The City and Graffiti ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Background information on May ‘68
Visualization: Creating a graffiti tag to illustrate an aphorism.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Contrasting uses of narrative present and passé composé / Introduction to prepositional systems in English and French.
Writing: Creating an aphorism using language structures to express oppositions / Turning an aphorism into a French tweet with texting abbreviations / Writing an explanation of the aphorism in present tense and including a bulleted list of past events with passé composé verbs and adverbial time expressions as illustration of what happened/what someone did.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

Fêtes et souvenirs

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Lesson Title: Fêtes et souvenirs [ Holidays and Recollections ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Le père Noël
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Le père Noël
Text Language: French
Text Author: Sand, George
Genre: Narratives / Essays
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Fêtes et souvenirs [ Holidays and Recollections ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Vocabulary associated with the term, “Father Christmas” / Catholicism past and present in France.
Writing: “Making strange” your own cultural practices.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading/Writing: Reminiscing about a childhood holiday using imparfait verbs for talking about the way things were or used to be and exploring cultural practices.
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

Sur le chemin du retour

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Lesson Title: Sur le chemin du retour [ Homeward Bound ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Excerpts from Chronique de la dérive douce
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: Excerpts from Chronique de la dérive douce
Text Language: French
Text Author: Laferrière, Dany
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Sur le chemin du retour [ Homeward Bound ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Being a political refugee from Haiti in Canada in 1976.
Listening: Watching a 1988 Canadian television show, Êtes-vous raciste? and listening to Canadian French pronunciation.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Noticing the structuring of prose poems.
Writing: Employing genre conventions for writing a chronicle in prose poetry.
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

La Technologie composée et imparfaite

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Lesson Title: La Technologie composée et imparfaite [ Composed and Imperfect Technology ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Test pour accro d’internet / Le crash
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Test pour accro d’internet / Le crash
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous / Anonymous
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: La Technologie composée et imparfaite [ Composed and Imperfect Technology ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading/ Writing: French internet vocabulary
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Finding illogical sequencing of events in a dream text.
Writing: Using passé composé and imparfait verbs with illogical (dreamlike) sequencing.
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

Il était une fois

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Lesson Title: Il était une fois [ Once Upon a Time ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Text Language: French
Text Author: Perrault, Charles
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Il était une fois [ Once Upon a Time ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Using historical facts to decode the values of an earlier period; comparing a contemporary filmed version to the text to improve comprehension. / Thinking about significant events in your life and comparing your answers to those of French students.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Recognizing verbs in passé simple. / Identifying language and conventions used in fairy tales.
Writing: A fractured fairy tale by subverting fairy tale conventions. / Using impersonal expressions with “il”.
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

Mais je digresse

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Lesson Title: Mais je digresse [ But I digress ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English, French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Ambiguïtés
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

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Text Title: Ambiguïtés
Text Language: French
Text Author: Gomarin, Françoise
Genre: Personal Blogs and Journals
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Mais je digresse [ But I digress ]
Instructional Language: English, French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: The concept of “flâner.” / Understanding uses of associative or digressive thinking and the various effects it can have on the reader.
Speaking: Examining syllable structuring in French to improve pronunciation when reading out loud.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Finding digressions in a text.
Writing: Prewriting questions to guide content development. /  Incorporating digressions in written musings to reflect how you think and speak. / Using parallelisms as a stylistic technique for enhancing rhythm and flow.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Symbolic Play

Le Monde du travail

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Lesson Title: Le Monde du travail [ The Work World ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Retour à la terre / Petit cours de politique
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

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Text Title: Retour à la terre / Petit cours de politique
Text Language: French
Text Author: Anonymous
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Le Monde du travail [ The Work World ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Geert Hofstede’s model for a cultural dimensions theory. / Reflecting on cultural values and their impact on the work world. / Learning some potentially embarrassing false cognates!
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Recognizing cultural stereotypes in a text.
Writing: Using joke-telling conventions for writing a humorous anecdote about a cross-cultural misunderstanding in the workplace. / Using conditional and subjunctive verbs for nuancing meaning.
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, LLDQ

L’Amour (et la guerre)

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Lesson Title: L’Amour (et la guerre) [ Love (and War) ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: 6 september, 1939 / Excerpts from a WW II journal / Wartime correspondence
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Visual Play

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Text Title: 6 september, 1939 / Excerpts from a WW II journal / Wartime correspondence
Text Language: French
Text Author: Jourdan, Robert
Genre: Poetry / Personal Blogs and Journals / Emails, Letters, and Postcards
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: L’Amour (et la guerre) [ Love (and War) ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Background information on the Fall of France during World War II.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Decoding visual and textual symbolism used for getting past censors in wartime correspondence. / Noticing intertextual references.
Writing: Following strategies and conventions for writing a love letter.
Visualization: Selecting an image to convey love.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Visual Play

Taking Inventory

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Lesson Title: Taking Inventory
Lesson Author: Chelsea Steinert / Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Novice
Text Title: Inventur
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, Perspective Play

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Text Title: Inventur
Text Language: German
Text Author: Günter Eich
Genre: Poetry
Topic: Talents and Interests

Lesson

Lesson Title: Taking Inventory
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chelsea Steinert / Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year / Novice
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Viewing
Grammar Focus: Predicative adjectives / Relational verbs
Main Objectives:

Students learn words for personal vocabulary, while reflecting on how the relative importance of these items changes in particular personal or historical moments; the featured example is the poem “Inventur” by Günter Eich

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading and responding to the poem “Inventur” by Günter Eich – written when he was a prisoner of war during WWII – , which takes the form of a personal inventory
  • Writing a personal poem on the model of Eich’s “Inventur”
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Analyzing the ways in which a list of possessions reflects aspects of a person and his/her priorities in a given cultural/historical moment.
  • Conceptualizing understatement and the unsaid as meaningful – especially in particular genres
  • expressing personal values attached to objects and comparing those values with those of others
Language Use & Strategies
  • poems as play with other genres
  • expressing and analyzing possessions and relations to personal objects
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, Perspective Play

Self-presentation and Contact: Personal Ads

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Lesson Title: Self-presentation and Contact: Personal Ads
Lesson Author: Chelsea Steinert / Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: High school, College / 1. year / Novice
Text Title: Personal Ad
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, Pragmatic Play

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Text Title: Personal Ad
Text Language: German
Text Author: Misc.
Genre: Portraits and Biographies
Topic: Introductions and Greetings / Family, Friendships, and Relationships

Lesson

Lesson Title: Self-presentation and Contact: Personal Ads
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chelsea Steinert / Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: High school, College / 1. year / Novice
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Viewing
Grammar Focus: Predicative adjectives / Relational verbs
Main Objectives:

Students read and design German-language personal advertisements and contrast how the individuals represent themselves.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading and responding to personal ads
  • Designing a personal ad for a fictional character based on a profile photo
  • Transforming a response to a personal ad in the form of a text message (SMS)
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Personal ads as a literacy practice in online spaces
  • Self-presentation as situated, genre-bound, and creative
  • Self-representation and other-perception as dynamic and contextual
Language Use & Strategies
  • Vocabulary choices related to self description and other description (e.g. age, appearance, hobbies and interests, etc);
  • Multimodality of profile images and texts combined; role of the visual in in self-presentation
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, Pragmatic Play

Cultural Allusion, Humor, and Memes On- and Offline

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Lesson Title: Cultural Allusion, Humor, and Memes On- and Offline
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title:
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Symbolic Play

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Text Title:
Text Language: German
Text Author: n/a
Genre: Narratives / Social Media
Topic: Media and Technology

Lesson

Lesson Title: Cultural Allusion, Humor, and Memes On- and Offline
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking / Listening
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:

Students learn how memes in the form of cultural references, formulaic language, and images can create humorous, ironic, and even critical effects

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading memes on- and offline
  • Redesigning an existing meme
  • Responding to memes
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • interpreting and questioning cultural references and allusions as indexes to socio-ideological perspectives
  • making sense out of the often critical humor that arises in the juxtaposition elements in memes
  • “insiderliness” as a potential effect of memes
  • creating humorous effects through cultural references and allusions in original memes
  • creating juxtapositions of voices and perspectives by remixing or recontextualizing texts in social networks
  • feeling addressed or excluded by memes and cultural allusions
Language Use & Strategies
  • analyzing formulaic language, images, and format in memes as variations of a theme
  • conceptualizing and analyzing heteroglosia as a literary effect in social network discourse and in memes
  • creatively playing with formulaic language, images, and format for ironic and humorous effects
  • using juxtaposition to create a critical or humorous voice
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Symbolic Play

Social Networks, Intertextuality and Heteroglossia

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Lesson Title: Social Networks, Intertextuality and Heteroglossia
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Text Title:
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Symbolic Play

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Text Title:
Text Language: German
Text Author: Misc.
Genre: Social Media
Topic: Media and Technology

Lesson

Lesson Title: Social Networks, Intertextuality and Heteroglossia
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: College / Intermediate, Advanced
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking
Grammar Focus: Direct and indirect speech
Main Objectives:

Students learn how to conceptualize and analyze the kinds of ironic, humorous, and affiliative effects that arise through various kinds of direct and indirect quoting practices.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading and participating in social network-mediated conversations, as found on Facebook
  • Designing a Facebook post around a meme or quote
  • Transforming a Facebook discussion into a reader’s theater performance
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Conceptualizing and analyzing Facebook conversations as a particular kind of literacy practice
  • Conceptualizing and analyzing heteroglossia and related effects (irony, humor, distancing) in relation to citational practices
  • Expressing affiliation and experiencing feelings of inclusion/exclusion through allusions and references
  • Expressing feelings / opinions through citation and sharing/reposting
  • Creating effects of irony, humor, distancing, etc. through citational practices
  • Experiencing and analyzing differences between online and offline discourse through the estrangement of genre transformation (from a FB post to a theater performance)
Language Use & Strategies
  • Direct and indirect quoting in social networks
  • Technological affordances of sharing and re-posting
  • Verbal and non-verbal cues (especially in relation to effect of irony, humor, distancing, etc.)
FLLITE Form: Symbolic Play

Die witzigsten WG-Anzeigen

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Lesson Title: Die witzigsten WG-Anzeigen [ The funniest Housemate Ads ]
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner / Yannleon Chen / Patrick Ploschnitzki
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year / Novice
Text Title: Die witzigsten WG-Anzeigen
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play, Pragmatic Play

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Text Title: Die witzigsten WG-Anzeigen
Text Language: German
Text Author: Joab Nist
Genre: Advertisements and Personal ads
Topic: Living Arrangements

Lesson

Lesson Title: Die witzigsten WG-Anzeigen [ The funniest Housemate Ads ]
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner / Yannleon Chen / Patrick Ploschnitzki
Level of Activities: College / 1. year / Novice
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Writing / Speaking
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:

Learners read and respond to humorous housemate ads, which flout genre norms and politeness conventions by portraying less than ideal housemates. Learners then write a short skit of a first meeting between the person in the ad and an imagined respondent, in order to explore the characterization of individuals in short texts of self-portrayal.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Reading and analyzing a set of housemate ads, which create humorous effects by flouting the politeness norms and cultural expectations for this genre.
  • Writing a response to a humorous housemate ad, Writing and performing a text-based skit between two prospective housemates
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Conceptualizing the norms of a genre, by recognizing moments in which those norms are flouted for humorous effects.
  • Hypothesizing about the kinds of characters portrayed through housemate ads and identifying cultural references that index these character types.
Language Use & Strategies
  • Genre play (expectations of self-portrayal in housemate ads)
  • Pragmatic play (politeness norms and taboos in housemate ads)
  • Cultural play (playful use of associations with types of people)
FLLITE Form: Culture Play, Genre Play, Pragmatic Play

Kleider machen Leute

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Lesson Title: Kleider machen Leute [ Clothes Make People ]
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Instructional Language: German / English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year / Novice
Text Title: Hilfe! Ich bin ein Junge film poster, synopsis and trailer
Text Language: German
FLLITE Form: Perspective Play

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Text Title: Hilfe! Ich bin ein Junge film poster, synopsis and trailer
Text Language: German
Text Author: n/a
Genre: Advertisements and Personal ads / TV and Film
Topic: Clothing / School and University

Lesson

Lesson Title: Kleider machen Leute [ Clothes Make People ]
Instructional Language: German / English
Lesson Author: Chantelle Warner
Level of Activities: College / 1. year / Novice
Pedagogical Practices: Reading / Speaking / Viewing
Grammar Focus: Separable prefix verbs / Temporal adverbs
Main Objectives:

In working with an advertising poster, a written synopsis, and a trailer for a popular German family film, students describe the clothing and daily activities of the two main figures and consider the relationship between these aspects of everyday life and identity, especially gender identity, and how these are played with in these texts that represent the movie.

Texts, Genres & Practices
  • Viewing and responding to paratext – i.e. a poster, a synopsis, and and a film clip – for a family film with a formulaic/familiar plot line (switched identity).
  • Writing a poster for an imagined film in which another aspect of identity is switched and Describing other students’ posters.
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
  • Identifying and discussing the ways in which clothing and daily routines index aspects of identity, such as gender. Analyzing the realization of these aspects in films and their marketing.
  • Comparing formulaic plot lines in German and American films—in this case, the identity swap—and interpreting the potential morals or messages of those films.
  • Expressing and comparing cultural expressions of identity.
Language Use & Strategies
  • Symbolic play (juxtapositions)
  • Cultural play (gender norms, formulaic plots)
FLLITE Form: Perspective Play

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