exploiting literary texts to enhance critical thinking
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Exploiting Literary Texts to Enhance Critical Thinking
Использование отрывков из произведений художественной литературы для развития критического мышления
Why NOT use literature?
• 'You need to be an expert'
• 'It must be "proper" literature'
• 'It's too hard for the students'
• 'There's not enough time!'
HIGH CULTURE
• no specialist training• brief, contemporary and relevant• enhance, supplement and
complement • speaking and reading skills + all• revision purposes• critical thinking
Critical thinking defined
• considering something carefully and deciding what the good and bad aspects are
• Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, 2007
Critical thinking taxonomies
Комплекс навыков и умений
• Поиск информации• Соотнесение с собственным опытом• Сравнение полученных знаний с
другими работами в данной области и других сферах знания
• Способность подвергать сомнению достоверность и авторитетность информации, проверять логику доказательств,
• Умение делать выводы, • конструирование новых примеров для
использования теоретического знания, • Умение принимать решения
Why?? Here’s one reason:
Over to you:
How about a critical look at …
pragmatics
modality
rhetorics
stylistics
How about a critical look at …
intonation
modal verbs
conjunctions
I wish
Gandalf & intonation
[…]
Gandalf & intonation
intonation
???
conjunctions
I wish
‘I Robot’ & modals
intonation
???
modal verbs
I wish
Obama & conjunctions
Dr Max Atkinson
•a list of THREE
•Puzzle – SOLUTION
•CONTRAST
intonation
???
modal verbs
conjunctions
Hemingway & I wish
So, we’taken a CT look at …
pragmatics
modality
rhetorics
stylistics
WWW.MACMILLANENGLISH.COM/GLOBAL
HIGH CULTURE
The power of literature
Charles Dickens Mary Shelley Zadie Smith
Nick Hornby Toni Morrison George Orwell J R R Tolkien
Guest authors
Margaret Atwood
…between learner readingand authentic literature
A bridgeA bridge
The Macmillan literature collections
The collections offer support
Linguistic before reading: lightening the lexical load during reading: footnotes and glossary after reading: noticing patterns and features of style
Cultural information about the author background information cultural footnotes
Literary before reading: identifying main themes after reading: guided literary discussion
What’s in it for me?• author, genre, time
• audio at onestopenglish
• stories for films – watch the film, compare the structure and content
• move on to longer works
P.S. maybe even start a book club
INTRODUCTION
About the authorAbout the storySummary
Pre-reading
•Key vocabulary* •Main themes
Post-reading
• Understanding the story*• Language study• Literary analysis
Language studyexamples
• Perfect aspect• Adverbs of manner in dialogue• Omitting the verb be• Inversion after so• Upper-middle-class speech• Ellipsis• Fronting in informal speech
Literary analysis
• PLOT • CHARACTER• NARRATION• STYLE
EVEN MORE
• suggested Essay questions- Language study- Literary analysis
• a comprehensive Glossary*
www.macmillanenglish.com
the READERS’ website
www.macmillanenglish.com
macmillanglobal.commacmillan.rumacmillanreaders.com
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