Literature and Intercultural Learning in Language and Teacher Education

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Cover image: Ana Mémeteau, "O real imaginado" 2016, oil on canvas, 50 X 50
In the painting you can read, in Portuguese:
Every word, when written, is something that does not exist.
Tous les mots, quand écrits, sont des choses qui n'existent pas.

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DOI 10.3726/b17352

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About the editors

Ana Gonçalves Matos is an assistant professor at the Department of Modern Languages, Cultures and Literatures of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA University, Lisbon. She is a researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies), where she integrates the TEALS (Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies) research group.

Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer studied French and Portuguese teacher education at the University of Aveiro (Portugal). She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, at the University of Hamburg (Germany).

About the book

Ana Gonçalves Matos / Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer (eds.)

Literature and Intercultural Learning
in Language and Teacher Education

This book addresses the value of literature in intercultural perspective in two interrelated spheres: foreign or second language learning and language teacher education. It brings together researchers of several disciplinary fields who crisscross research and empirical evidence about the valuable role of literature in the development of intercultural competence. The authors, through their different approaches and diverse contexts, from lower to higher education, hope to encourage others to explore literature in a foreign or second language as a space for readers of all ages to generate critical thinking, empathy, and intercultural learning.

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Foreword

Ana Gonçalves MatosSílvia Melo-Pfeifer

Intercultural language education for the 21st century through literary texts: an introduction

Margarida Morgado

Boys, comics and graphic novels: preparing the ground for an engagement with reading

Magali Jeannin

La littérature pour la jeunesse à l’épreuve de l’interculturel: vers une approche complexe de l’altérité à l’école

Nicolas Hurst

The text’s the thing. Text typologies and interculturality in Portuguese-produced English Language Teaching (ELT) coursebooks.

Beatriz Moriano

Los textos literarios en la formación de hablantes interculturales: un articuento de Millás en el aula de ELE

Mark Sawyer

Intercultural learning through literature in and out of a Japanese high school classroom

Carlos Ceia

Integrating literature in a curriculum for language teacher education

Ana Sofia Pinho

Project-based intercultural education: primary schoolteachers’ experiences in a Portuguese school

The role-play of identities by the mediation of Literature: a small step towards the huge leap of intercultural competence development in teacher training in Mozambique

Sílvia Melo-PfeiferMartin NeumannAnnika Sarwari

«Littérature et compétence interculturelle en cours de Français Langue Étrangère»: résultats d’une coopération entre les études littéraires et la didactique des langues romanes dans la formation initiale à l’Université de Hambourg

Manuela Guilherme

Afterword: Critical intercultural learning through literary texts in language teacher education

Notes on the contributors

Index

Foreword

The nations must understand one another and quickly, and without the interposition of their governments, for the shrinkage of the globe is throwing them into one another’s arms.

(E.M. Forster, Notes on the English Character 1920)

Talk of globalisation, internationalisation and super-diversity is now commonplace. Prescient in this as in so much else, E. M. Forster wrote of the need for understanding – and of the urgency of this need – at the end of ‘the war to end wars’. He emphasised that people rather than governments should seek what we today call ‘intercultural communication’. His emphasis was justified by John Maynard Keynes’s analysis, in the same year, of the failings of those who govern, as he observed the Versailles negotiations: