Toward Wider Use of Literature in ESL: Why and How.

Gajdusek, Linda

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Publication Date: 1988

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Toward Wider Use of Literature in ESL: Why and How.

Gajdusek, Linda

TESOL Quarterly, v22 n2 p227-57 Jun 1988

Discusses English as a second language (ESL) theory as it relates to the use of literature, and presents a four-step approach to any literary text that obliges ESL students to take responsibility for building their own successively more complex schemata. This approach is illustrated with Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home." (Author/LMO)

Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Context Clues, Decoding (Reading), Directed Reading Activity, English (Second Language), Literary Criticism, Literature, Schemata (Cognition), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Language: English

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