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The Educational Potential of Texts of Culture in Teaching English to Senior Secondary School Students: 2 (Gdansk Studies in Language) - Hardcover
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This book addresses the issue of using texts of culture in the EFL classroom. It analyzes some of the common problems observed in the teaching of English to senior secondary schools students, particularly in the context of the school leaving examination. It offers a discussion of the role of English language education in the school curriculum and stresses the importance of using texts with cognitive appeal at lessons. It presents the impact of literature, films and songs on the student’s overall development and a set of criteria for text selection. It also investigates the English teacher’s role in exploiting the educational potential of culture texts and proposes a way of integrating them with a system of preparation for the school leaving examination in English.
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Olga Aleksandrowska studied English Philology at the University of Gdańsk (Poland). She holds a PhD in Linguistics and is currently employed as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Gdańsk. Besides, she works as an expert in the professional advancement of foreign language teachers.
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Pp. Condition: Sehr gut. 175 S. ; 22 cm, 350 g Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction 11 -- 1. Selected problems in English language teaching -- at senior secondary schools 15 -- 1.1 Matura examination-oriented teaching 16 -- 1.2 Excessive emphasis on teaching English for communication 24 -- 1.3 The paucity of content of coursebook texts 27 -- 1.4 The poor quality of student oral and written output 32 -- 1.5 Teachers' inefficiency in exploiting the cognitive -- potential of texts 36 -- 1.6 Teachers' reservations and excuses 40 -- 1.7 Concluding remarks 44 -- 2. The educational potential of English language lessons 45 -- 2.1 Linguistic goals and wider educational goals -- of English language teaching 45 -- 2.2 Multi-dimensional foreign language education 46 -- 2.3 The concept of educating through content -- 2.4 What is understood by "valuable content"? -- 2.5 Educational and uneducational texts -- 2.5.1 The idea of cognitive appeal -- 2.5.2 Four categories of educational texts -- 2.5.3 Texts with cognitive appeal in -- aim-centred methodology -- 2.5.4 A multimodal approach to educational texts -- 2.6 Concluding remarks -- 3. The importance of texts of culture as classroom -- resources -- 3.1 Defining the concepts culture and text of culture -- 3.2 Dimensions and functions of a text of culture -- 3.3 Categories and types of texts of culture -- 3.4 A text of culture as an educational text -- 3.5 The role of texts of culture in the student's -- general development 80 -- 3.5.1 Language improvement 80 -- 3.5.2 Cognitive enrichment 85 -- 3.5.3 Emotional and aesthetic growth 89 -- 3.5.4 Motivation 91 -- 3.6 Concluding remarks 94 -- 4. The selection of texts of culture for English lessons 95 -- 4.1 Students' personal characteristics and preferences 96 -- 4.1.1 Age and emotional maturity 96 -- 4.1.2 Students' interests and motivation 98 -- 4.2 Difficulty 100 -- 4.2.1 Linguistic and conceptual difficulty 101 -- 4.2.2 Cultural difficulties 103 -- 4.3 Educational and artistic values 105 -- 4.4 Stimulus value: the cognitive appeal of the -- text and the student's feedback Ill -- 4.5 Teaching aims and compliance with curricular goals -- and content 116 -- 4.6 Authenticity 120 -- 4.7 Organizational and technical aspects 123 -- 4.8 A sample rationale for a text of culture 126 -- 4.9 Concluding remarks 128 -- 5. The English teacher's competences and roles -- in using texts of culture at English language lessons 129 -- 5.1 The three spheres of the foreign language -- teacher's education 129 -- 5.2 Selected English language teacher's characteristics 132 -- 5.3 Roles and competences of the English teacher 134 -- 5.3.1 The teacher as an educator 136 -- 5.3.2 The teacher as a role model and an active -- participant of cultural life 137 -- 5.3.3 The teacher as a user of texts of culture at lessons 138 -- 5.3.4 The teacher as a facilitator and a cultural mediator 141 -- 5.3.5 The teacher as a competent user of the multimedia 143 -- 5.4 Concluding remarks 146 ISBN 9783631644317 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 338. Seller Inventory # 1085805
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