Reading Between the Lines: Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacy

189 Pages·2003·5.722 MB·

by  Dr. Peter C. Patrikis

Yale Language Series

EDITED BY PETER C. PATRIKIS
Reading Between the Lines
PERSPECTIVES ON FOREIGN
LANGUAGE LITERACY
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Reading between the lines : perspectives on foreign language literacy /
edited by Peter C. Patrikis.
p. cm. — (Yale language series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-300-09781-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Language and languages—Study and teaching. 2. Literacy—Study and teaching.
I. Patrikis, Peter Charles. II. Series.
P53.475 .R43 2003
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
. . . et femina dux erat
To Claire Kramsch
for leading the way

Contents
Preface ix
Introduction
Peter C. Patrikis 1
1 Reading Cultures and Education
William A. Johnson 9
2 Literacy and Cognition
Mark Turner 24
3 Literacy as a New Organizing Principle
for Foreign Language Education
Richard G. Kern 40
4 Playing Games with Literacy: The Poetic Function
in the Era of Communicative Language Teaching
Carl Blyth 60
5 Reading Between the Cultural Lines
Gilberte Furstenberg 74
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6 Reading and Technology in Less Commonly Taught
Languages and Cultures
Masako Ueda Fidler 99
7 Experiential Learning and Collaborative Reading:
Literacy in the Space of Virtual Encounters
Silke von der Emde and Je√rey Schneider 118
8 Double-Booked: Translation, Simultaneity, and Duplicity
in the Foreign Literature Classroom
Mark Webber 144
9 Ethics, Politics, and Advocacy
in the Foreign Language Classroom
Nicolas Shumway 159
List of Contributors 169
Index 173
Preface
The essays in this volume were originally presented at two conferences
conducted by the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning: one on
technology, foreign languages, and undergraduate education held at the Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology in October 1998, the other on new perspec-
tives on foreign language literacy held at Brown University in October 2000.
That these essays, all of which have been extensively revised, are gathered in
one volume is not mere serendipity: the chapters share a renewed emphasis
on reading in the teaching and learning of foreign languages.
I am grateful to the contributors for their willingness to include their
essays here and for their patience on the long road from conference to book.
And I am grateful to the readers of the earlier draft of the collection: Mary
Ann MacDonald Carolan of Fairfield University, David Goldberg of the As-
sociation of Departments of Foreign Languages, and especially James S.
Noblitt of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, whose guidance,
wit, common sense, wisdom, generosity, and friendship I treasure.
Finally, I would like to express my thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foun-
dation and the C. V. Starr Foundation for their generous and enlightened
support of the Consortium’s conferences.
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