Pedagogical Stylistics: Current Trends in Language, Literature and ELT

Description

This book offers a global exploration of current theory and practice in the teaching of stylistics and the implementation of stylistic techniques in teaching other subjects. Pedagogical stylistics is a field that looks at employing stylistic analysis in teaching, with the aim of enabling students to better understand literature, language and also improving their language acquisition. It is also concerned with the best practice in teaching stylistics. The book discusses a broad range of interrelated topics including hypertext, English as a Foreign Language, English as a Second Language, poetry, creative writing, and metaphor. Leading experts offer focused, empirical studies on specific developments, providing in-depth examinations of both theoretical and practical teaching methods. This interdisciplinary approach covers linguistics and literature from the perspective of current pedagogical methodology, moving from general tertiary education to more specific EFL and ESL teaching. The role of stylistics in language acquisition is currently underexplored. This contemporary collection provides academics and practitioners with the most up to date trends in pedagogical stylistics and delivers analyses of a diverse range of teaching methods.

Michael Burke is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Stylistics at Roosevelt Academy, the liberal arts and sciences honours college of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Szilvia Csabi is a postdoctoral researcher currently working as managing editor of dictionaries at the Publisher of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences & Wolters Kluwer in Budapest, Hungary. Judit Zerkowitz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Applied Linguistics at Eoetvoes Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary. Lara Week is a graduate of Roosevelt Academy, the liberal arts and sciences honours college of Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

'Pedagogical Stylistics will be a stimulating read for anyone who teaches Stylistics and for teachers of English Language and Literature more generally, either in mother-tongue or second/foreign-language teaching situations. It is full of interesting discussions of texts, teaching approaches which can be used in class, and empirical studies which relate student reading processes and outcomes to pedagogical strategies.' -- Professor Mick Short, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK 'Ground-breaking in its scope and theoretical sophistication, clear and inspiring in its pedagogical goals, this volume is indispensable reading for any teacher of stylistics. The collection will also appeal to anyone interested in the discipline's power to shape the reading and interpretive skills of today's students.' -- Professor Barbara Dancygier , Department of English, University of British Columbia, Canada