Problemfelder des Fremdsprachenlehrens und -lernens: “Queer Children’s and Young Adult Literature in the EFL Classroom” - Detailseite

What role do gender and sexuality play in the learning and teaching of English as a foreign language? In Germany, little attention has been paid so far to issues related to gender and sexuality in the EFL curriculum – a neglect that allows a firm belief in a binary gender system, essentialist conceptions of maleness and femaleness, as well as the marginalization of non-normative genders and sexual identities to remain largely unquestioned in local language teaching theory and school practice.
In this seminar we will look at queer children’s and young adult literature as subject matter of the English language classroom from the theoretical perspectives of literature didactics and concepts of teaching for critical literacy. You will cooperatively develop a unit on one of the texts, (co-)teach parts of it at a Berlin secondary school, and reflect upon your teaching experiences as well as classroom observations in the seminar.
A course syllabus as well as required primary and secondary literature will be provided in a Moodle course under www.moodle.hu-berlin.de.