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LiLT Forum #1241

Sat, May 15, 13:00-14:30 JST | Zoom 4
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In any classroom, including a language teaching setting, teaching literature is not just a means to increased vocabulary or grammatical constructs. Literary texts can be fairly linear with simple plots or richly ambiguous with a myriad of interpretations that require the reader to sift through the fine nuances of language. Some texts provoke the reader to ask, and more importantly attempt to answer, questions; perhaps questions the reader had never pondered. What criteria beyond language learning drives your choice of text? Perhaps there are cultural aspects that the text captures, or provocative story lines that challenge our beliefs. What deeper issues do you hope to raise with your students?

In this LiLT forum, we would like to address this topic. Presenters will explain their criteria for text selection as well as other relevant issues. Integral to the forum's success is audience participation; questions and insights will be solicited and greatly appreciated. Non-members and LiLT members alike are encouraged to attend and enrich our friendly and inclusive forum.

John Maune

John Maune

Hokusei University / Junior College English Department
John Maune is a professor in the Hokusei Gakuen University Junior College English Department, Sapporo, Japan, where he teaches content-based courses in both biology and literature. He has presented papers at conferences in literature, education, human evolution, and language teaching, on a wide-variety of topics, ranging from knowing in Shakespeare, brain-friendly teaching hacks, the carnivalesque in Coriolanus, to human nature in Romeo and Juliet.
Jennifer Igawa

Jennifer Igawa

Meiji Gakuin University
Jennifer Igawa has been teaching in Japan for over 30 years, using fiction in higher level English language classes for the past 15. She is currently using flash fiction in English Communication classes for Economics majors and novels in a seminar.
Luke Draper

Luke Draper

Kwansei Gakuin University
Associate Lecturer of English at Kwansei Gakuin University; PhD Linguistics student at University of Surrey UK; I research stylistic metalanguage and its impact on creative writing workshops and revisional processes and decisions
Camilo Villanueva

Camilo Villanueva

Murray State University
Doctoral student at Murray State University. I research/study literature and English pedagogy, and I have worked in TESOL since 2004. I have recently presented on Charles Crocker, a 19th century working-class poet, Abe Kōbō, writer of Woman in the Dunes, and Nakagami Kenij, a Japanese writer of the social outcast community. I teach part-time at Nanzan University and Nagoya Women’s University.
Iain Maloney

Iain Maloney

Sugiyama Jogakuen University
Originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, Iain is the author of five books including the memoir The Only Gaijin in the Village. He lives in Gifu and teaching in Nagoya.
Susan Laura Sullivan

Susan Laura Sullivan

Tokai University
Susan Laura Sullivan's areas of interest lie in creativity, student autonomy and life long learning. She holds a Master of Creative Arts, and a Master of TESOL. She currently works for Tokai University and is a co-editor of the award winning anthology, "Women of a Certain Age" (Fremantle Press).