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Title

Cultural studies in the EFL classroom / edited by Werner Delanoy, Laurenz Volkmann.

Publication

Heidelberg : Winter, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Delanoy, Werner.
• Volkmann, Laurenz.

Description

394 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Anglistische Forschungen ; Bd. 369

Uniform Title

Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 369.

Subject

• English language > Foreign speakers
• Language and culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. LAYING A FOUNDATION. Introduction: cultural studies in the EFL classroom / Werner Delanoy & Laurenz Volkmann -- Cultural studies: key issues and approaches / Doris Teske -- 2. AREA STUDIES RECONSIDERED. A. Focus on Britain. 'Cool Britannia'?: versions of contemporary Britishness / Susanne Reichl -- 'First industrial nation': a cultural studies perspective on the British industrial revolution in the EFL-classroom / Doris Teske -- Representations of British schools in British films: uses in the EFL classroom / Gabrile Linke -- "Watch this!" Regional pride: Scotland, a nation in its own right / Joachim Schwend -- B. North American studies. The American dream / Peter Freese -- Minority voices: (re-)introducing Native America to the EFL classroom / Nancy Grimm -- 'The first nation of hockey' and 'the best part of North America': introducing Canada in the EFL classroom / Sabine Doff --^
• C. Postcolonial perspectives. The postcolonial mind: reading indigenous Australian texts in the foreign language classroom / Eleonore Wildburger -- Unity in diversity: the Indian kaleidoscope in the EFL classroom / Joybrato Mukherjee -- 3. INTER- AND TRANSCULTURALITY AS PARADIGMS FOR CULTURAL STUDIES. "Don't mention the war": Fawlty towers, the 'funny walk' and the Anglo-German relationship in the EFL classroom / Christoph Ehland & Thomas Leuerer -- Meeting point London: using different media to develop intercultural communicative competence via field trips / Andreas Müller-Hartmann & Marita Schocker-V. Ditfurth -- Negotiation for intercultural meaning in secondary school EFL classrooms: Australia, a project / Jörg-Ulrich Keßler-- Politeness rules: pragmatic approaches to intercultural competence in the EFL-classroom / Christoph Schubert -- The concept of do's and don'ts in intercultural communication: critical considerations / Friedrich Lenz --^
• Lingua franca English as chimera: sociocultural and sociolinguistic perspectives / Allan James -- Transculturality and (inter-)cultural learning in the EFL classroom / Werner Delanoy -- 4. LITERATURE AND POPULAR CULTURE: NEW APPROACHES, NEW TEXTS. A. Cultural studies and literature. Teaching William Shakespeare: new approaches to the Bard in the EFL classroom / Roland Petersohn & Laurenz Volkmann -- Jazz: Toni Morrison's novel and the use of cultural studies in the literary classroom / Wolfgang Hallet -- Glimpses of Indian life in the classroom: Salman Rushdie's short story "Good advice is rarer than rubies" / Stefanie Woyth-Gutberlet -- British pop-culture novels: Nick Hornby in the EFL classroom / Roland Petersohn -- B. Cultural studies and literature with a small 'l'/culture with a small 'c'. Teaching the Harry Potter 'phenomenon' in the EFL classroom: Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / Sandra Hestermann --^
• Tolkien's The lord of the rings: beyond the printed text / Jana Honegger & Thomas Honegger -- Racisim in British children's literature, or, from Little black Sambo to Harry Potter / Margaret Holt -- Poetry, rap, hip hop / Andrea Taubenböck -- Comics and graphic novels in the classroom / Dirk Vanderbeke -- Pop-music, video and gender / Eckart Voigts-Virchow.

ISBN

• 9783825352561 (hd.bd.)
• 3825352560 (hd.bd.)

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Harvard Library