Essays about: "the literary canon"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words the literary canon.

  1. 1. What to teach or how to teach? : A survey on the consequences a less detail-controlled curriculum has on English teachers´ choice of English-language literature

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Valentin Andrijevic; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish National Curriculum; less detail-controlled; English-language literature; critical literacy; critical pedagogy; intersectionality; Half of a Yellow Sun; Swedish Cultural Canon of Literature;

    Abstract : This essay aims to examine which consequences a less-detail controlled curriculum has on English teachers’ choice of English-language literature. With support from the literature review, this essay argues that an unofficial, tacit school canon of English-language literature mainly composed of ten literary works seems to have been established in Swedish upper-secondary schools, despite the Swedish National Curriculum not naming specific literary works educators in Sweden are required to use in their teaching. READ MORE

  3. 2. Englishes in Upper Secondary EFL Teaching. A Study of Teachers’ Selection, in Relation to Kachru’s Circles

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Lärarutbildningsnämnden

    Author : Hanna Furenäs; [2022-08-03]
    Keywords : Teaching; literary canon; EFL; EIL; Kachru’s circles;

    Abstract : The reality of the English language has shifted from being the language of the Empire to an international Lingua Franca. This pluricultural way of viewing English is reflected in the syllabus for the subject. READ MORE

  4. 3. Ahtesham-Grunebaum-Stark’s The Tale of the Missing Man: a Dāstāṃ of a Bhopālī Lāpatā

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : S Tareq Khan; [2022]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : Mazoor Ahtesham is a renowned writer in the modern Hindi literature. He is one of the fewMuslim voices in the modern Hindi literary canon.2 He gives a detailed picture of the Muslim society, which is undergoing a change within and, at the same time, is confronted by the change outside. READ MORE

  5. 4. Multicultural literature and intercultural theory in English 6 : A qualitative study of teachers’ experiences with multicultural literature in upper-secondary schools in Sweden

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Bian Solmaz; [2022]
    Keywords : Multicultural literature; intercultural theory; diversity; culture; intercultural pedagogy; L2 English; education; content analysis; interviews; upper-secondary school; Sweden;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to examine English language teachers’ choices and uses of literary texts, and more particularly, multicultural forms of literature from an intercultural pedagogical angle. Drawing on a qualitative approach, six English teachers’ experiences were explored using interviews. READ MORE

  6. 5. Language Politics of the Mexican State regarding native languages and the funding of literary production

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema; Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Lucia Paprckova; [2022]
    Keywords : literature; native languages; indigenous writers; governmental subsidies for literary creation; world literature; decoloniality; colonialism; national literary canon; homogeneity; racism; classism;

    Abstract : This thesis strives to understand the underlying narrative behind the current distribution of the public funding between the writers of the Spanish language and writers of native languages in Mexico, as well as contextualise the policies of the Mexican State that often materialise colonial dynamics. The situation of native women writers is emphasised as they are forced to tackle multiple disadvantages based on unjust social structures. READ MORE