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

Example Texts

A FLLITE text can be any genre and may include different forms of multimodality: words, images, videos, audio. The key to recognizing a FLLITE text is that it must reflect the intersection of “the Literary” (one or more dimensions of language play) and “the Everyday.” (See the About the FLLITE Approach section under Project for further explanation.)

 

Examples of FLLITE texts:

LLDQ-postcard-WWII

Genre: Postcard
FLLITE Categories: Symbolic Play, Genre Play
Author: Robert Jourdan
Language: French
Description: Handmade postcards from a French prisoner of war during WWII addressed to his family in which symbolism of language and images was used to bypass Nazi censors.
FLLITE_Texts-Acción_Poética_Trenque_Lauquen

Genre: Graffiti
FLLITE Categories: Sound Play, Grammar Play
Author: Acción Poética – Trenque Lauquen
Language: Spanish
Description: This graffiti plays with the notions of sleeping and dreaming. What does it mean to sleep a little but dream a lot? Perhaps, the person who wrote this is a daydreamer whose constant dreaminess keeps him from sleeping? At any rate, the graffiti clearly plays with the meanings of “sleep” and “dream” in Spanish.
FLLITE-texts-meme-german

Genre: Social Media (Internet meme)
FLLITE Categories: Symbolic Play, Culture Play
Author: Unknown
Language: German / English
Description: This meme was part of a mass response to a broken door at a German university and mixes an English quote from the US TV Futurama with the German reference to the repairman who still hasn’t shown up.

FLLITE-texts-movie-german

Genre: Film (Trailer)
FLLITE Categories: Symbolic Play, Culture Play, Narrative Play
Title: Hilfe! Ich bin ein Junge [Help! I’m a Boy]
Author: Oliver Dommenget, Ronald Kruschak
Language: German / English
Description: This film plays with the familiar plot line of the body swap and typical symbols of gender, in order explore issues of sex roles, friendship, and empathy.

Video_game_Haiku

Genre: Poetry (Haiku)
FLLITE Categories: Sound Play, Grammar Play, Genre Play
Author: @keefstuart (twitter)
Language: English
Description: Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that is associated with themes based on nature. However, these haiku plays with the genre by drawing on the world of digital games rather than nature.

FLLITE-texts-Ikea-catalog-ad-german

Genre: Advertisement
FLLITE Categories: Symbolic Play, Genre Play, Perspective Play
Author: Ikea
Title: Die kleinen Freuden des Alltags [The Little Joys of the Everyday]
Language: German
Description: In an ad for the Swedish chain of furniture stores, well-known German literary critic Hellmuth Karasek reviews the IKEA catalog, playing with genre norms of advertisements and reviews — as well as perspectives of literariness.

cartoon

Genre: Comics (Political cartoon)
FLLITE Categories: Symbolic Play, Narrative Play
Author: Unknown
Language: Arabic
Description: This political cartoon was created in 2008, after then President George W. Bush narrowly missed being hit with a show thrown by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a press conference. The cartoon references the current situation and a classical Arabic story that helps to express the sentiment of that moment.
FLLITE_text_example_words

Genre: Fairy Tale
FLLITE Categories: Genre Play, Culture Play, Narrative Play
Title: Le Petit Chaperon Rouge
Author: Charles Perrault
Language: French
Description: A classic French fairy tale provides the basis for exploring genre and cultural conventions of the 17th century in order to provide students with the tools for updating and personalizing the genre.
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  • How to Participate
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