COD 2006 - G275

English for Teachers III - Literature Strand

Teachers who have attended Language for Teachers I & II or teachers of English who have some experience of teaching English as a FL, literature lovers. The reading of the Short Stories (available at ESSARP in advance) is presupposed.

3 sessions, start: 29-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2006
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD, Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 45.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 29 April 2006 09:00 am 12:00 pm
2 27 May 2006 09:00 am 12:00 pm
3 24 June 2006 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
Teachers who have attended Language for Teachers I & II or teachers of English who have some experience of teaching English as a FL, literature lovers. The reading of the Short Stories (available at ESSARP in advance) is presupposed.
Workshop participants will be able to: - Sharpen language awareness by building strategies to respond to and analyse representational texts. - Develop intercultural awareness by comparing the worlds of meaning in literary texts written in English-speaking countries to their own.
This is a series of workshops aimed at discussing literary texts written in English by writers from India, Africa, Australia, the Caribbean and Scotland. More workshops on other texts will be offered in the second part of the year. Session 1: Coordinated by Florencia Perduca Innovating English: Issues on cultural gaps and cross-cultural awareness in: - a set of poems written in English showing the voices, themes, world views and linguistic innovations of non-native writers living in India, Africa, the Caribbean. - Millie Murray's Jamaican English in "The Escape". Session 2: Coordinated by Claudia Ferradas Moi Ways of Surviving: - Growing Up in South Africa: Beverley Naidoo's "Poinsettias" - Scottish snapshots: Ali Smith's "Survivors" Session 3: Coordinated by Florencia Perduca Writing India: - Indian Whispers: a set of poems written in English by Nissim Ezekiel - Anita Desai's "Private Tuition with Mr Bose" Methodology: Each module is topic-based and self-contained. It includes a number of tasks which provide: - Opportunities for the study of the language system and global voices in English. - Strategies for working with these texts. - Ways of developing text-based responses. - Awareness of teaching methodologies using literary texts.
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