Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education

Anglophone Literature in Second Language Teacher Education proposes new ways that literature, and more generally culture, can be used to educate future teachers of English as a second language. Arguing that the way literature is used in language teacher education can be transformed, the book foregrounds transnational approaches and shows how these can be applied in literature and cultural instruction to encourage intercultural awareness in future language educators. It draws on theoretical discussions from literary and cultural studies as well as applied linguistics and is an example how these cross-discipline conversations can take place, and thus help make Second-language teacher education (SLTE) programs more responsive to the challenges faced by future English-language teachers. Written in the idiom of literary scholarship, the book uses ideas of intercultural studies that have gained widespread support at research level, yet have not affected literature-cultural curricula in SLTE. As the first interdisciplinary study to suggest how SLTE programs can respond with curricula, this book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, L2 and foreign language education, teacher education and post-graduate TESOL. It has universal appeal, addressing teaching faculty in any third-level institution that prepares language teachers and includes literary studies in their curriculum, as well as administrators in such organizations.

Justin Quinn is Associate Professor of English and American Literature in the English Department, at the Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Gabriela Kleckova is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics in the English Department, at the Faculty of Education, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

1. Introduction by Justin Quinn and Gabriela Kleckova 2. Teaching English as an International Language: Implications for Literature Courses in Teacher Preparation Programs by Aya Matsuda 3. The Shifting Faces of English Language Teaching by Denise E. Murray and MaryAnn Christison 4. Interculturalism and Literary Representation by Justin Quinn 5. Moving Between Worlds: Pedagogies of Spatial and Cultural Mobility in Children's Literature by Gül Bilge Han 6. Literature through Culture x Person x Situation by Charles Hall 7. Literature, Political Conflict and Intercultural Understanding: Teaching the Northern Irish Troubles by Charles I. Armstrong 8. Cultural Intelligence and Literature by Brad Vice 9. Languages at Play: Teaching Intercultural Awareness with J. M. Coetzee by Charlotta Elmgren 10. Immigrant Literature and Its Use in Second-Language Teacher Education by Jean Marie Schultz 11. Ishiguro and Politeness Theory by Brad Vice 12. World Englishes, English as a Lingua Franca, and Literature by Veronika Quinn-Novotná and Jirina Dunková 13. Innovation in Second-Language Teacher Education by Gabriela Kleckova 14. A New Intercultural Curriculum for Literature and Culture in English-Language Teacher Preparation by Gabriela Kleckova, Justin Quinn, and Brad Vice 15. Conclusion