{"product_id":"9783631742662","title":"Teaching Cosmopolitanism through Transnational Literature in English (Anglo-amerikanische Studien \/ Anglo-American Studies .54) (2018. 330 S. 46 Abb. 210 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book introduces a teaching approach that seeks to prepare students in multicultural EFL-classrooms for their role as world citizens. The study unfolds the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence to provide a tool for the empirical assessment of students' competences. This tool serves to evaluate the potentials of the teaching approach.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens. The author shows that teaching English offers important potentials for cosmopolitan education due to its role as a «lingua franca». The study develops the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence as a theoretical framework. It also presents a teaching approach that combines students' life-writing with the discussion of literary texts to advance the associated knowledge, skills and attitudes. The potentials of this approach are evaluated through the assessment of students' competence development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCosmopolitanism in education - Approaches to cultural learning in the EFL-classroom - Advancing cosmopolitan communicative competence in a life-writing approach to transnational literature in English - Teaching and assessing cosmopolitan communicative competence - Findings of empirical assessment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMirja Beutel\u003c\/strong\u003e is a lecturer in teacher education at the Ruhr-University Bochum. She holds a PhD and has longstanding teaching experience in secondary schools. Her research interests are transcultural language learning, learning with digital media and Content and Language Integrated Learning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48808860844267,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":163.52,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9783631742662-1.jpg?v=1783115585","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9783631742662","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}