Text as Culture: Teaching through Literature is a professional development text that trains language teachers and prospectiver language teachers how to teach with literature. This book proposes concrete ways to place literary studies solidly in the second language curriculum. The reaffirmation of literature in the clasroom demands the introduction of innovative steps: writing by students from the very beginning of their instruction and the encouragement of imagination. The book demonstrates precise methods to teach students to write before they speak, to read as they learn to absorb vocabulary, and to use their imaginations as they learn grammar rules. Above all, the book proposes that through literature students can learn to think critically, to analyze, and to draw conclusions not only about literary texts, but about cultural signs that surround them.
- ISBN10 003034221X
- ISBN13 9780030342219
- Publish Date 2 December 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 August 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
- Imprint Heinle
- Format Paperback
- Pages 150
- Language English