Teaching Literature in the Language Classroom: Concorso Preparation
Learn how to teach literature in the language classroom through theories, teaching approaches, activities and lesson plans. Prepare for your concorso with sample concorso questions.
Unit 1: Overview
FREE PREVIEWPart 1: Reflection questions
FREE PREVIEWPart 1: A historical overview of literature in the language classroom
FREE PREVIEWVideo: a historical overview of literature in the language classroom
FREE PREVIEWPart 2: Teaching literature: what and why
FREE PREVIEWPart 3: The purposes of literature in the language classroom
FREE PREVIEWPart 4: Literature in the foreign language classroom: problems and opportunities
FREE PREVIEWPart 5: Concorso task
FREE PREVIEWSample answer
Unit 2: Overview
Part 1: Terminology
Part 1: Guiding questions
Part 2: Video: Rosenblatt’s transactional theory of literature
Part 3: Personal response and reader-response
Expansion task: Evaluating questions - I wandered lonely as a cloud
Expansion task: Answers
Part 4: The cultural, language and personal growth model
Expansion task: The Road not Taken
Unit 3: Overview
Part 1: A comprehensive approach to L2 literature teaching
Part 2: Literature in the CEFR
Part 3: Practical principles of instruction
Part 4: Concorso task
Sample answer
Unit 4: Overview
Part 1: The issue of difficulty
Part 2: Stimulating learners’ interest in literary texts
Part 3: Maintaining learners' interest
Part 4: Leveraging learners' background knowledge
Part 5: Concorso task
Sample answer
Unit 5: Overview
Part 1: Definitions
Part 2: Linguistic and non-linguistic benefits of extensive reading
Part 3: The challenges of extensive reading
Part 4: Principles to implement extensive reading
Part 5: Providing extensive reading materials
Part 6: Practical teaching procedures
Part 7: Concorso task
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