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For several reasons, fictional texts are suitable for developing intercultural communicative competence in pupils of all ages. Teaching foreign literature, which already represents linguistic otherness, is ideal since it allows learners to experience other cultures and value systems. Thus it can arouse curiosity and openness towards the other culture, ask the readers to decentre from their own positions, force them to change perspectives, make them reflect on auto- and heterostereotypes, all of which may lead to a better understanding of other cultures. Against this background this course will focus on literary topics such as family and gender roles, migration and minorities, terror and racism, social problems and global responsibility.
The following volume serves as the basis for the seminar: Ahrens, Rüdiger/Eisenmann, Maria/Hammer, Julia (eds.) (2012): Anglophone Literaturdidaktik – Zukunftsperspektiven für den Englischunterricht. Heidelberg: Winter. |
