This article highlights how Wolfgang Herrndorf's bestselling novel "Tschick" (2010) is particularly well suited for advanced courses focused on cultural and linguistic enrichment. Herrndorf's "Tschick," I argue, facilitates interaction, engagement, and individual interpretation; is linguistically accessible because of its use…

Bilingual Education is a must in Spain nowadays. Its implementation during the past ten years has involved a meaningful change in teaching methodology. For the first time now our students have the chance to speak and to listen to the target language before they start mastering grammar. As part of this process, English literature is being…

One teacher uses Robert Sabatier's novels in combination with Laurence Wylie's account of life in a French village to help students gain an awareness of French cultural values and mentality that surpasses an inventory of cultural traits, and to help the students reconsider their own cultural biases. (MSE)