COD 2017 - G868

Reading ourselves: an intercultural approach to anglophone texts about Argentina

Anyone interested in literature and intercultural awareness. Middle school and secondary language and literature teachers

1 sesiones, inicia: 20-Feb

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Ciclo: 2017
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Claudia Ferradas PhD
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1 20 Febrero 2017 09:30 am 12:30 pm

Capacitador/es

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).
Anyone interested in literature and intercultural awareness. Middle school and secondary language and literature teachers
- To reflect on what is meant by “Anglo-Argentine literature” and whether the term is appropriate
- To discuss how literary texts in English about Argentina have contributed to building Argentine identity from the xviiith century to the present day
- To discuss the value of studying such texts in Argentine English language and literature classes and explore strategies to do so
- the term “Anglo-Argentine literature”: going beyond its usual definition
- a quick look at tendencies in literary texts in English about Argentina
- the civilisation vs barbarity binary in sample texts
- the value of such texts for intercultural awareness
- ideas to use Anglophone texts on Argentina in the classroom
The facilitator will open discussion on the term “Anglo-Argentine literature”, provide a sample of literary texts in English about Argentina to guide group work on the contents of the course and participants will be invited to suggest strategies to deal with the texts discussed in their classes
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