Andy Gordon was Head of the English Programme at York St John University for many years. His extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience includes film adaptation, children’s literature and working with international students. Interests include contemporary literature, the Gothic and science fiction. He is currently working on a project on C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books.
Marthe Sofie Pande-Rolfsen is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Subject Didactics in the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. She has previously worked as a teacher in lower secondary school. Her main teaching and research interests are children’s literature, literacy development and bodily learning.
New perspectives in the fully updated second edition include extensive attention to LK20 curriculum competence aims. Four newly commissioned chapters cover global education and diversity, digital literature, reading approaches for all, and active engagement with poetry. This book amply meets the needs of the English teacher training and school curriculum. Literature for children and young adults remains a main focus, including new genres, such as graphic novels, digital texts and experimental picturebooks. Texts suggested represent a wide range of English-speaking countries and communities. Different options and thoughtful guidance on choosing and analysing appropriate and exciting material for classroom use are offered. All 10 chapters combine up-to-date theoretical and applied research-based insights with practical and adaptable pedagogic activities. A variety of approaches, including differentiation and online tasks, are suggested in every chapter, to help meet the multiple demands on classroom teachers of English. Creative active learning approaches include examples of outdoor learning activities, drama projects and text co-creation. Multi-modal texts and resources are featured. Balancing presentation of contemporary literary genres and adaptations, including film, with poetry, novels, and Shakespeare, this book will be essential reading for teacher training students of English and TEFL teachers at all levels in the school system.
Hege Emma Rimmereide is Associate Professor of English Literature at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). Her research focus is on reading and writing skills in primary school, ecocritical literature, graphic novels and teaching and learning with digital tools. Her latest publications are on extensive reading in primary school EFL and multimodal texts in the English classroom. Beck Sinar is a Lecturer at the Norwegian Study Centre, University of York, where she teaches Historical and Socio-cultural Linguistics, Culture, and Didactics to international students and in-service teachers. She is passionate about engaging everyone in the wonderful world of Englishes by promoting a love of language and literatures. Tim Vicary taught for over 30 years at the Norwegian Study Centre, University of York. He co-authored several coursebooks for use in Norwegian schools, and published graded readers for EFL teaching, as well as writing nine full-length novels.
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LITERATURE for the English classroom
Lalita Murty is a Lecturer at the Norwegian Study Centre, University of York, where she teaches courses on topics in Applied Linguistics, such as Discourse Analysis, English as a Lingua Franca and Teaching Vocabulary. Her extensive international teaching experience working in different cultural contexts includes Norway and the Netherlands. She has published research papers in the fields of cognitive linguistics and global Englishes.
Bringing together enthusiastic and experienced scholars from Norway and the UK, this book (now in its second edition) sets out to provide an informative and accessible bridge between excellent contemporary English language literature and teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).
Gweno Williams Anita Normann (eds.)
AUTHORS
SECOND EDITION
Gweno Williams and Anita Normann (eds.)
LITERATURE for the English classroom THEORY INTO PRACTICE
SECOND EDITION
EDITORS
Gweno Williams teaches literature and pedagogy at the Norwegian Study Centre, University of York. She holds an Emeritus Professorship from York St John University, where she taught and researched in the English Department for many years. She has also taught in California, Norway and the Netherlands. Awarded one of the first British National Teaching Fellowships, she is passionate about interactive and dynamic ways of studying literature.
Anita Normann is Associate Professor in English subject didactics at the Department of Teacher Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She has many years of experience both as a teacher educator and as an English teacher in lower secondary school. Her main fields of interest are language didactics, writing as a basic skill, school development and professional digital competence for teachers.
CO-EDITOR OF THE FIRST EDITION Anna Birketveit (1956-2018) was Associate Professor of English at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) in Bergen. She had many years of experience as a teacher trainer and an English teacher. Her main teaching and research fields were children’s literature and EFL, with a particular interest in picturebooks in the classroom.