%0 Book
%A Ana Goncalves Matos
%D 2012
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 1663-5809
%@ 9783035302493
%T Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning
%B Exploring New Directions
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0249-3
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052431
%X This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts. The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study – speculative in nature – about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that reading literary texts may open up a passage to a ‘third place’, a space in which a student can learn more about their own identity and ultimately arrive at a more nuanced understanding of otherness. Some of the skills implicated in the construction of textual understanding can facilitate intercultural learning, opening up opportunities for a pedagogical approach in which the reading of literary texts develops a student’s intercultural perspective and fosters reflection on cultural difference. The author explores the pedagogical potential of the book’s theoretical premises through a sustained classroom-based example.
%K inherent connection between reading and being intercultural, reality and literary experience, Pedagogical value of literary texts, construction of textual understanding can facilitate intercultural learning
%G English