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, • Умение принимать решения

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

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HIGH CULTURE

The power of literature

Charles Dickens Mary Shelley Zadie Smith

Nick Hornby Toni Morrison George Orwell J R R Tolkien

Guest authors

Margaret Atwood

…between learner readingand authentic literature

A bridgeA bridge

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 authorAbout the storySummary

Pre-reading

•Key vocabulary* •Main themes

Post-reading

• Understanding the story*• Language study• Literary analysis

Language studyexamples

• 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*

www.macmillanenglish.com

the READERS’ website

www.macmillanenglish.com

macmillanglobal.commacmillan.rumacmillanreaders.com

Even more ideas…@