%0 Book
%A Mirja Beutel
%D 2018
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783631743997
%T Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational Literature in English
%B An Empirical Evaluation of Studentsʼ Competence Development in a Life-Writing Approach to Teaching Literature
%R 10.3726/b13167
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055865
%X The book deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens. The author shows that teaching English offers important potentials for cosmopolitan education due to its role as a «lingua franca». The study develops the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence as a theoretical framework. It also presents a teaching approach that combines students’ life-writing with the discussion of literary texts to advance the associated knowledge, skills and attitudes. The potentials of this approach are evaluated through the assessment of students’ competence development.
%K EFL-classroom, empirical study, teaching literature, autobiographical texts, multicultural classrooms, transcultural learning
%G English