TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mirja Beutel
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631743997
TI  - Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational Literature in English
T2  - An Empirical Evaluation of Studentsʼ Competence Development in a Life-Writing Approach to Teaching Literature
DO  - 10.3726/b13167
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055865
N2  - 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.
KW  - EFL-classroom, empirical study, teaching literature, autobiographical texts, multicultural classrooms, transcultural learning
LA  - English
ER  -