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Vinall, Kimberly – L2 Journal, 2016
Cultural and literary texts are used in the foreign language classroom to support learners' language development, cultural awareness, and reading comprehension. While classroom activities frequently facilitate a literal understanding of facts and events, these texts offer another potential level of analysis: symbolic dimensions, which focus on how…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
Phelan, Patricia, Ed. – 1990
This book presents findings of a cross-section of teachers, elementary through college, who have developed ways to enable students to make connections between their lives and the literature they read. The 28 articles are grouped into: (1) a section on the collaborating and creating connection with literature; and (2) a section on the reading and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education