Fiction, Literature and Media

by Kooy, Mary

• ISBN13: 9789053563922
• ISBN10: 905356392X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Amsterdam Univ Pr

Summary

This book examines mother tongue language education and the changing face of the texts that characterise them. In increasingly complex, diverse and media-saturated social contexts, the authors challenge mother tongue teachers and teacher educators to consider and stretch textual horizons to include oral, written, visual, and virtual texts in their teaching and learning. The book is divided into three sections: fictions and literary theory, fictions and (multi)media texts, and crossing borders: fictions, integration and language. Each chapter offers ways of integrating a diverse range of texts into mother tongue classes in larger, bolder strokes. Challenges - particularly to conventional understanding of the literary canon - emerge in elaborate, extensive, and inclusive considerations of broadly defined written, visual, and virtual texts and their place in mother tongue education classes. This book will challenge educators to review and reconstruct their literary practices in a broader textual environment.

Table of Contents

Expanding Textual and Intertextual Horizons in Mother Tongue Education	1	(5)
Mary Kooy
Picture Books in the Secondary Classroom	5	(6)
Ken Watson
Of Fairy Tales and Literary Theory: A Communicative Model in Mother Tongue Teaching	11	(12)
Metka Kordigel
Language, Literature, and Cultural Conflict	23	(16)
Sean Farren
Literature: The Writing on the Wall is Now on the Screen	39	(12)
Andrew Goodwyn
Communicating Complexity: Content, Interaction, and Media in Teaching Literature	51	(10)
Ronald Soetaert
Andre Mottart
Literature Does Not Need a Passport: Integrating Literature Teaching in Language Education	61	(16)
Tanja Janssen
Brechtine Detmar
Joost Ides
Constructing Intertextual Landscapes: Reading Logs in Mother Tongue Education	77	(12)
Mary Kooy
Further Explorations in Texts and Intertextuality	89