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Exploiting Literary Texts to Enhance Critical Thinking Использование отрывков из произведений художественной литературы для развития критического мышления Why NOT use literature? • 'You need to be an expert' • 'It must be "proper" literature' • 'It's too hard for the students' • 'There's not enough time!' HIGH CULTURE • no specialist training • brief, contemporary and relevant • enhance, supplement and complement • speaking and reading skills + all • revision purposes • critical thinking Critical thinking defined • considering something carefully and deciding what the good and bad aspects are • Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, 2007 Critical thinking taxonomies Комплекс навыков и умений • Поиск информации • Соотнесение с собственным опытом • Сравнение полученных знаний с другими работами в данной области и других сферах знания • Способность подвергать сомнению достоверность и авторитетность информации, проверять логику доказательств, • Умение делать выводы, • конструирование новых примеров для использования теоретического знания, Why?? Here’s one reason: Over to you: How about a critical look at … pragmatics modality rhetorics stylistics How about a critical look at … intonation modal verbs conjunctions I wish Gandalf & intonation […] Gandalf & intonation intonation ??? conjunctions I wish ‘I Robot’ & modals intonation modal verbs ??? I wish Obama & conjunctions Dr Max Atkinson •a list of THREE •Puzzle – SOLUTION •CONTRAST intonation modal verbs conjunctions ??? Hemingway & I wish So, we’taken a CT look at … pragmatics modality rhetorics stylistics HIGH CULTURE The power of literature WWW.MACMILLANENGLISH.COM/GLOBAL Guest authors Charles Dickens Nick Hornby Mary Shelley Toni Morrison Zadie Smith George Orwell Margaret Atwood JRR Tolkien A bridge …between learner reading and authentic literature The Macmillan literature collections The collections offer support Linguistic before reading: lightening the lexical load during reading: footnotes and glossary after reading: noticing patterns and features of style Cultural information about the author background information cultural footnotes Literary before reading: identifying main themes after reading: guided literary discussion What’s in it for me? • author, genre, time • audio at onestopenglish • stories for films – watch the film, compare the structure and content • move on to longer works P.S. maybe even start a book club INTRODUCTION About the author About the story Summary Pre-reading •Key vocabulary* •Main themes Post-reading • Understanding the story* • Language study • Literary analysis Language study examples • • • • • • • Perfect aspect Adverbs of manner in dialogue Omitting the verb be Inversion after so Upper-middle-class speech Ellipsis Fronting in informal speech Literary analysis • • • • PLOT CHARACTER NARRATION STYLE EVEN MORE • suggested Essay questions - Language study - Literary analysis • a comprehensive Glossary* the READERS’ website www.macmillanenglish.com macmillanglobal.com macmillan.ru macmillanreaders.com www.macmillanenglish.com Even more ideas…@