FOREIGN LANGUAGES
&
THE LITERARY IN THE EVERYDAY
helping students
to make meaning

Further Reading

Multiliteracies

  • Byrnes, Heidi. 2005. Literacy as a framework for advanced language acquisition. ADFL Bulletin, 37.1: 11-15.
  • Byrnes, Heidi. 2002. The cultural turn in foreign language departments: Challenge and oportunity. Profession, 114-129.
  • Byrnes, Heidi. 2008. What kind of resource is language and why does it matter for German Studies?. German Quarterly 81.1: 8-19.
  • Byrnes, H. and Sprang, K. “Fostering Advanced L2 Literacy: A Genre-based, Cognitive Approach” in Advanced Foreign Language Learning: A Challenge to College Programs, Heidi Byrnes and Hiram H. Maxim (eds) AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Boston, MA: Heinle Thomson, 2005: 47-85.
  • Cope, Bill & Kalantzis, Mary (Eds.). 2000. Multiliteracies. Literacy learning and the design of social futures. London & New York: Routledge.
  • Kern, Richard 2000. Literacy and language teaching. Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Kern, Richard & Schultz, Jean. M. 2005. Beyond orality: Investigating literacy and the literary in second and foreign language instruction. The Modern Language Journal, 89, 381-392.
  • Kern, Richard. 2002. Reconciling the language-literature split through literacy, ADFL Bulletin, 33 (3), 20-24.
  • Maxim, Hiram. 2006. Integrating textual thinking into the introductory college-level foreign language classroom. The Modern Language Journal, 90.1: 19-32.
  • Mills, Kathy. 2011. The Multiliteracies Classroom. Bristol & Buffalo. Multilingual Matters.
  • New London Group. 2000. A pedagogy of multiliteracies: designing social futures. In B. Cope & M. Kalantzis (eds). Multiliteracies: literacy learning and the design of social futures (pp. 43-68). London: Routledge.
  • Paesani, K. 2008. Literary texts and grammar instruction: Revisiting the inductive presentation. Foreign Language Annals, 38.1: 15-23.
  • Paesani, K., Allen, H., & Dupuy, B. 2015. A Multiliteracies Framework for Collegiate Foreign Language Teaching. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
  • Street, Brian. 1995.Social Literacies. London: Longman.
  • Swaffar, Janet., Arens, K. and H. Byrnes, H. 1991. Reading for meaning: An integrated approach to language learning. New York: Prentice Hall.
  • Swaffar, Janet. “Reading the Patterns of Literary Works: Strategies and Teaching Techniques.” 3 In: Virginia M. Scott and Holly Tucker, eds. SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues. Boston, MA: Heinle & Heinle, 2002. 131-154.
  • Walther, Ingeborg. 2007. Ecological persepctives on language and literacy: Implications for foreign language instruction at the collegiate level. ADFL Bulletin, 38.3/39.1: 6-14.

Literariness and Language Teaching

  • Berg, W. & Martin-Berg, L. 2001. A stylistic approach to foreign language acquisition and literary analysis. In V. Scott and H. Tucker (eds). SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
  • Bredella, L. & Delanoy, W. (eds) 1996. Challenges of Literary Texts in the Foreign Language Classroom. Gunter Narr Verlag.
  • Brumfit, C.J. & Carter, R. (eds). 1991. Literature and language teaching. Oxford: Oxford UP.
  • Burke, M. et al (eds.) 2012. Pedagogical Stylistics. London: Continuum.
  • Carter, R. & McRae, J. (eds). 1996. Language, literature and the learner: creative classroom practice. London: Longman.
  • Carroli, Piera. 2008 Literature in second language education : enhancing the role of texts in learning. Continuum, London.
  • Frantzen, Diana. 2001. Rethinking foreign language literature: Towards an integration of literature and language at all levels. In V. M. Scott & H. Tucker (Eds.), SLA and the Literature Classroom: Fostering Dialogues. Issues in Language Program Direction: A Series of Annual Volumes. pp. 109-130. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.
  • Gramling, David & Warner, Chantelle. 2012. Toward a Contact Pragmatics of Literature: Habitus, Text, and the Advanced L2 Classroom. Critical and Intercultural Theory and Language Pedagogy, 57-75. Glenn Levine and Alison Phipps (eds). AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction. Boston, MA: Heinle.
  • Hall, G. 2005. Literature in language education. London: Palgrave Macmillian.
  • Kramsch, Claire & Kramsch, Olivier. 2000. The avatars of literature in language study. The Modern Language Journal, 84.4: 553-573.
  • Kramsch, Claire. 1985. Literary texts in the classroom. A discourse. Modern Language Journal, 69.4: 356-366.
  • Kramsch, Claire & Andersen, Roger. 1999. Teaching text and context through multimedia. Language Learning & Technology, 2.2, 31-42. Retrieved from http://llt.msu.edu/vol2num2/article1.
  • Krueger, Cheryl. 2001. Form, content, and critical distance: The role of „creative personalization“ in language and content courses. Foreign Language Annals, 34.1: 18-25.
  • Lyman-Hager, M. (2000). Bridging the language-literature gap: Introducing literature Electronically to the undergraduate language student, CALICO Journal, 17 (3), 431-452.
  • Magnan, Sally Sieloff. 2004. Rediscovering text: Multiple stories for language departments. Profession: 95-106.
  • Pireddu, Nicoletta. 2008. Literature? C’est un monde: The foreign language curriculum in the wake of the MLA report. Profession: 219-228.
  • Sell, Roger D. 1991. The politeness of literary texts. In R. Sell (ed.) Literary pragmatics (pp. 208 – 224). London: Routlege.
  • Scott, Virginia & Huntington, Julie. 2007. Literature and the interpretive mode and novice learners. Modern Language Journal, 91.1: 3-14.
  • Scott, Virginia & Huntington, Julie. 2002. Reading culture: Using literature to develop C2 competence. Foreign Language Annals, 35.6: 622-631.
  • Simpson, Paul. 1996. Language through literature: an introduction. Routledge: London.
  • Warner, Chantelle. 2014. Mapping New Classrooms in Literacy-Oriented Foreign Language Teaching and Learning: The Role of the Reading Experience. Transforming the Foreign Language Curriculum in Higher Education: New Perspectives from the United States. Katherine Arens, Janet Swaffar, and Per Urlaub (eds.) Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
  • Warner, Chantelle & Gramling, David. 2013. Gerade Dir hat er eine Botschaft gesendet Contact Pragmatics and the Teaching of Foreign Language Texts. Traditions and Transitions: Curricula for German Studies, 209-226. John Plews and Barbara Schmenk (eds.) Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
  • Warner, Chantelle. 2012. Literary Pragmatics in the Advanced Foreign Language-Literature Classroom: the Case of Young Werther. Pedagogical Stylistics: Current Trends in Language, Literature and ELT, 142-157. Michael Burke, Szilvia Csabi, Lara Week and Judit Zerkowitz (eds.) London: Continuum.
  • Warner, Chantelle. 2009. Hey, you! The Germans! Using literary pragmatics to teach language as culture. Unterrichtspraxis, 42.1, 162-168.
  • Widdowson, Henry. 2008. Language creativity and the poetic function. A response to Swann and Maybin. Applied Linguistics, 29.3: 503-508.
  • Zyngier, Sonia. & Fialho, Olivia. 2010. Pedagogical stylistics, literary awareness and empowerment: a critical perspective. Language and Literature, 19.1, 13-31.
  • Widdowson, Henry. 1992. Practical stylistics. Oxford: Oxford UP.

Open education

  • Blyth, C. 2014. Open educational resources and the new classroom ecology. Modern Language Journal, 98.2: 662-664.
  • Comas-Quinn, Anna; Beaven, Ana; Sawhill, Barbara (Eds). 2019. New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom. Research-publishing.net.