Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures
Title | Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures PDF eBook |
Author | Alena Kačmárová |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2017-01-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1443861472 |
This book explores scholarly challenges within the fields of Anglophone language, literature, and culture. The section focusing on language details issues falling within two areas: namely, language contact and the language-culture relationship, and stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. The literature part investigates twentieth-century American, English, and Australian literature, dealing with both poetry and prose and discussing topics of identity, gender, metafiction, postmodern conditions, and other relevant theoretical issues in contemporary literature. The culture part treats theoretical approaches in cultural studies that are vital in today’s cultural context, especially in Central European universities, the Irish language and culture, and contemporary cultural phenomena inspired by the growing ubiquity of technological intrusions into various fields of cultural production.
Language Learning in Anglophone Countries
Title | Language Learning in Anglophone Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Ursula Lanvers |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2021-01-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3030566544 |
This edited book focuses on the state of language learning in Anglophone countries and brings together international research from a wide range of educational settings. Taking a contextual perspective on the language learning crisis currently facing Anglophone countries, the authors examine systemic challenges, real-world practices, and broader cultural trends that have an impact on the uptake of modern foreign languages in different Anglophone settings. This book will be of interest to scholars working in applied linguistics and language education, particularly those with a focus on educational policy and Global English.
Norm and Anomaly in Language, Literature, and Culture
Title | Norm and Anomaly in Language, Literature, and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Stolarek |
Publisher | Peter Lang D |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Language and languages |
ISBN | 9783631675151 |
This book focuses on examining diverse facets of norm and anomaly from a linguistic, didactic, literary and cultural perspective. The authors address, among others, problems related to order and chaos, expression and repression, autonomy and oppression, harmony and discord in modern and contemporary British and US literature and culture.
Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education
Title | Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Shahriar, Ambreen |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2017-03-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1522525521 |
The pursuit of higher education has become increasingly popular among students of many different backgrounds and cultures. As these students embark on higher learning, it is imperative for educators and universities to be culturally sensitive to their differing individualities. Student Culture and Identity in Higher Education is an essential reference publication including the latest scholarly research on the impact that gender, nationality, and language have on educational systems. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives such as internationalization, intercultural competency, and gender equity, this book is ideally designed for students, researchers, and educators seeking current research on the cultural issues students encounter while seeking higher education.
Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education
Title | Anglophone Literature in Second-Language Teacher Education PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Quinn |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2021-03-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1000363066 |
Anglophone Literature in Second Language Teacher Education proposes new ways that literature, and more generally culture, can be used to educate future teachers of English as a second language. Arguing that the way literature is used in language teacher education can be transformed, the book foregrounds transnational approaches and shows how these can be applied in literature and cultural instruction to encourage intercultural awareness in future language educators. It draws on theoretical discussions from literary and cultural studies as well as applied linguistics and is an example how these cross-discipline conversations can take place, and thus help make Second-language teacher education (SLTE) programs more responsive to the challenges faced by future English-language teachers. Written in the idiom of literary scholarship, the book uses ideas of intercultural studies that have gained widespread support at research level, yet have not affected literature–cultural curricula in SLTE. As the first interdisciplinary study to suggest how SLTE programs can respond with curricula, this book will be of great interest for academics, scholars and post graduate students in the fields of applied linguistics, L2 and foreign language education, teacher education and post-graduate TESOL. It has universal appeal, addressing teaching faculty in any third-level institution that prepares language teachers and includes literary studies in their curriculum, as well as administrators in such organizations.
Language, Literature, and Identity
Title | Language, Literature, and Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Kizitus Mpoche |
Publisher | |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Language policy |
ISBN |
Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene
Title | Anglophone Literature and Culture in the Anthropocene PDF eBook |
Author | Gina Comos |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2019-05-02 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527534073 |
Defined as an ecological epoch in which humans have the most impact on the environment, the Anthropocene poses challenging questions to literary and cultural studies. If, in the Anthropocene, the distinction between nature and culture increasingly collapses, we have to rethink our division between historiography and natural history, as well as notions of the subject and of agency since the Enlightenment. This anthology collects papers from literary and cultural studies that address various issues surrounding the topic. Even though the new epoch seems to require a collective self-understanding as a unified species, readings of the Anthropocene and conceptualizations of human-nature relationships largely differ in Anglophone literatures and cultures. These differing perspectives are reflected in the structure of this book, which is divided into five separate sections: the introductory part familiarizes the reader with the concept and the challenges it poses for the humanities in general and for literary and cultural studies in particular, and the three following sections combine broader, more theoretical, essays with in-depth critical readings of US, Canadian, and Australian representations of the Anthropocene in literature. The final part moves beyond literature to include media theoretical perspectives and discussions of photography and cinema in the Anthropocene.