COD 2011 - S377

A/AS Literature: Literature and writing combined

Literature teachers.

2 sessions, start: 18-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella, Mr. Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo
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ARS 160.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 April 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 02 May 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.

Leonardo Andrés Pantaleo

Leonardo graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. He is doing his MA degree in Literary Studies at UBA. He has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Contemporary English Literature for two years and one in English Culture and Civilization at UNLP. He has participated in several academic conferences. For the past fifteen years, he has taught ESL and FLE classes for IGCSE and AS/A English Language and Literature in English at Patris Bilingual School, City Bell, and he has prepared IB candidates at St. George's, Quilmes and at Southern International School. For the past three years, he has developed digital material for an online educational platform.
Literature teachers.
In our experience, the teaching of literature for the A/AS level implies a specific kind of task which is twofold. On the one hand, engaging the ss in the literary experience as readers and, on the other hand, the teaching of skills necessary to put all the information, feelings and feedback of what they have read in black and white. This second task includes both the capacity to express their views with a correct use of language and doing it in the appropriate genres for the exam.

It is the objective of this course to help teachers generate strategies to develop the varied and complex skills that our students need in order to face the A/AS Literature examination.
- Genre awareness (form and content).
- Rubric understanding and development: how to answer the question correctly.
- Length handling / Paragraph organisation.
- Use of quotations.
- Use of co-text.
- Develop a personal voice/opinion.
Workshop: participants will be encouraged to participate, express their own views and propose ways to work with level of writing in class.
- Ellis, R. (1995). Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford, OUP.
- Montgomery et al. (1992). Ways of Reading. London, Routledge.
- Carter and Nunan (eds.) (2001) The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Cambridge, CUP.
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