COD 2009 - G509

Irish Voices: Old and New

Advanced speakers of English, lovers of reading.

1 sessions, start: 24-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2009
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 55.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 24 June 2009 05:30 pm 08:30 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).
Advanced speakers of English, lovers of reading.
- To share the joys of reading.
- To explore the themes of fragmentation, uncertainty, displacement and the value of
personal relationships in multicultural texts.
- To develop awareness of the views, voices and identities of English-speaking communities in Argentina.
- The Irish in Argentina: William Bulfin's Tales of the Pampas.
- Cultures in dialogue: Irish gauchos, indians, natives, other immigrants.
- The language blend.
- Acculturation. Post-colonial implications.
Group discussion of the text and lecture by facilitator when relevant.
- Bulfin, W. (1997) Tales of the Pampas (bilingual edition) Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A.
- Graham-Yooll, A. (1999) The Forgotten Colony. Buenos Aires: L.O.L.A.
- IZARRA, Laura P.Z. de (2001) "Juan José Delaney: Irish Diasporic Literary Voices in South American Border Narratives". University of São Paulo, ABEI Journal, the Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, Available at irishdiaspora.net.:
http://www.irishdiaspora.net/vp01.cfm?outfit=ids&requesttimeout=500&folder=9&paper=87
- Murray, E. (2003) "How the Irish Became Gauchos Ingleses - Diasporic Models in Irish-Argentine Literature". Université de Genève. Available at: The Irish Argentine Historical Society (2004): http://www.irishargentine.org/ia_last.htm
- Murphy, M. "The Cultural Nationalism of William Bulfin", in Londraville, Janis & Richard (eds.) (2001) John Quinn. Selected Irish Writers from his Library. West Cornwall, CT.: Locust Hill Press.
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