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Alan Pulverness
is Senior Academic Consultant with NILE, the Norwich Institute for Language Education. He is the author of All in a Word: literature in language teaching (Bell Educational Trust 1989) and co-author of a number of ELT textbooks, including the ESU/Duke of Edinburgh award-winning Macmillan Short Course Programme (1993; 1995). He was editorial adviser for The Literary Labyrinth (SEI 1993) and The World Wide Reader (OUP & La Nuova Italia 2001) and has edited schools editions of Macbeth (SEI 2000; Cornelsen 2006) and Romeo and Juliet (Cornelsen 2007). His most recent publications are the series New English Fiction (ELI 2003) and The TKT Course (Cambridge University Press 2005). From 2000 to 2004 he edited IATEFL Conference Selections and from 2002 to 2006 he co-chaired the British Council Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature.
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"Deprived of history": negotiating third spaces
...those of us deprived of history sometimes need to turn to mythology to feel complete, to belong.
Drawing on examples from film, TV and prose fiction, this presentation will focus on ways in which the children and grandchildren of immigrant families can mediate between cultures and in the process may begin to define new British identities. These members of second and third generations frequently find themselves suspended between lifestyles, values, cultures – though this is not necessarily an uncomfortable place to be. I will argue that their hybridised identities offer the potential for creating new psychological spaces and scope for moving between cultures and explaining one to the other.
Meera Syal Anita and Me This is not simply a topic of interest in terms of cultural learning; it also provides a powerful metaphor for the 'emigration' of the language learner from one language-world to another, and suggests an approach to teaching and learning language-and-culture which might sensitise learners of all ages and at different levels to issues of cultural difference. |