COD 2008 - S227

Into the Wind: Contemporary Stories in English (IGCSE 2008)

High school teachers preparing students for IGCSE literature, language and literature teachers and literature lovers.

4 sessions, start: 31-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2008
Level: Secondary
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 160.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 31 March 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 07 April 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 14 April 2008 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
4 21 April 2008 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).
High school teachers preparing students for IGCSE literature, language and literature teachers and literature lovers.
To get teachers to: • Become better acquainted with the social and philosophical context in which the stories were written. • Discuss the relevance of the stories to the postmodern reader in the early XXIst century. • Evaluate the obstacles that make it difficult to approach these texts with adolescents whose native tongue is not English, as well as the points that make them a good choice. • Discuss approaches and develop techniques to approach the stories in the high school classroom. • Explore tasks which can help students who are being trained for IGCSE Literature.
• Modernism and the short story. • Modernist writing vs. "contemporary" writing. • Bridging relevance and cultural gaps. • Textual Intervention techniques. Session 1: Alex La Guma, "The Lemon Orchard". Jean Rhys, "Let Them Call It Jazz". Cyprian Ekwensi, "A Stranger From Lagos". Session 2: John Wyndham, "Dumb Martian". Patrick O'Brian, "Samphire". Jan Mark, "Feet". Session 3: Dorothy M. Johnson, "A Man Called Horse". Doris Lessing, "A Woman on a Roof" and "Flight". Session 4: Roald Dahl, "The Hitch-hiker". Liam O'Flaherty, "The Sniper". Frank O'Connor, "My Oedipus Complex".
• Discussion of the aspects mentioned in the objectives, mainly through group work. • Group design of activities aimed at the IGCSE class.
• Carter, R. & McRae, J. (2001) The Routledge History of Literature in English. Britain and Ireland. London: Routledge. • Pope, R. (1998) The English Studies Book. London and New York: Routledge.
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