Literary Texts and Intercultural Learning: Exploring New Directions

This book offers new perspectives on the pedagogical value of literary texts.

The book is, in the first place, a theoretical study - speculative in nature - about the inherent connection between reading and interculturality. The author argues that reading literary texts may open up a passage to a "third place", a space in which a student can learn more about their own identity and ultimately arrive at a more nuanced understanding of otherness.

Some of the skills implicated in the construction of textual understanding can facilitate intercultural learning, opening up opportunities for a pedagogical approach in which the reading of literary texts develops a student's intercultural perspective and fosters reflection on cultural difference. The author explores the pedagogical potential of the book's theoretical premises through a sustained classroom-based example.

Book Details

• Author: Ana Goncalves Matos
• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• eBook ISBN: 9783035302493, 3035302499
• Print ISBN: 9783034307208, 3034307209