Culture and Literature in the EFL Classroom: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice

298 Pages·2019·5.196 MB·English

by  Theresa Summer (editor)

Culture and Literature in EFL Education
ANGLO-AMERIKANISCHE STUDIEN
ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES
Literatur, Kultur und Didaktik
Literature, Culture and Teaching
Herausgegeben von
Rüdiger Ahrens, Maria Eisenmann und Laurenz Volkmann

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Culture and Literature
in EFL Education

Relating Theory to Practice
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Tribute

This volume is dedicated to the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Ahrens,
Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE).
As a professor of TEFL, he spent most of his years at the Julius-Maximilians-
University of Würzburg where he was Chair of TEFL from 1980 until 2004.
Additionally, as a visiting professor, he was invited to teach at numerous uni-
versities across the world – for instance, in Cambridge, Beijing, Tokyo, Caen,
London, Nanchang/China, Vancouver, and Toronto. Some of his achievements
include, to name but a few, the award of the Bavarian Order of Merit (Bayerischer
Verdienstorden) in 2012, the American Order of Merit in 2008, the International
Peace Prize in 2005, and Dr. h.c. (Caen) in 1996 and Professor h.c. (Nanchang,
China).
Rüdiger Ahrens has devoted much of his lifetime to research and teaching
focusing on the English Renaissance, English literature and culture of the
18th century, literary theory and criticism, 20th century drama and novels,
new Anglophone literatures and cultures as well as the teaching of literature
in general. He has published over 100 contributions/papers and also over 100
reviews or shorter contributions. In addition, some of his edited volumes have
achieved great respect both in literary criticism circles and in the TEFL world.
Among these are, for example, Englische und amerikanische Literaturtheorie
(2 vols., 1978–1979, with Erwin Wolff), William Shakespeare: Didaktisches
Handbuch (3 vols., 1982), Europäische Sprachenpolitik – European Language
Policy (2003), William Shakespeare: Zeit – Werk – Wirkung. Aufsätze (2004),
and Moderne Dramendidaktik für den Englischunterricht (2008, with Matthias
Merkl and Maria Eisenmann). While co-editing a number of book series such as
Anglistik: An International Journal of English Studies; Anglistische Forschungen;
Anglo-amerikanische Studien – Anglo-american Studies; and Grundlagen der
Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Rüdiger Ahrens’ impact on research in the field of
foreign language education has remained and still remains highly influential.
As the editor of this volume, and in the name of all of his colleagues and
friends, I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to Rüdiger Ahrens’
remarkable academic achievements throughout his long career as a university
teacher, lecturer, researcher, and doctoral supervisor. He has supported and
supervised over forty Ph.D. and postdoctoral students for over four decades and,
in doing so, has succeeded in contributing to an expansion of TEFL as an aca-
demic and practice-oriented field of research.
6 Tribute
I would like to congratulate Rüdiger Ahrens to his 80th birthday. I wish you,
in the name of all of the authors who contributed to this volume as well as all
other close friends and colleagues, all the best, happiness and health as well as
many, many more fruitful years committed to academic work in the field of for-
eign language education as well as to your private life.
Theresa Summer, editor
Acknowledgements

First and foremost, the book would not have been possible without the
contributions of the many authors who have devoted their time and energy to this
project. I am grateful for their work for this volume. I would also like to extend
particular appreciation to the research assistants Lena Meyer, Alex Hemmerich
and Carmen Alles at the Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg in the
TEFL Department, who have helped with organisational issues as well as stylistic
revisions. I would further like to extend particular appreciation to Professor Maria
Eisenmann and the financial support granted through the Julius-Maximilians-
University of Würzburg for this book project. Particular thanks are due to the
editorial team at Peter Lang Verlag – Academic International Publishing. I am
also grateful to my family for their support.
Last but not least, I would like to pay special tribute to Professor Dr. Dr. h.c.
Rüdiger Ahrens to whom this volume is dedicated to in honour of his 80th
birthday. He has been extremely supportive in the numerous doctoral research
projects that he has supervised throughout his career as a professor and even
as professor emeritus of Englische Fachdidaktik at the University of Trier and
Würzburg. As of summer 2018, he has supervised over forty PhD theses and
postdoctoral dissertations – all of which have contributed to the development of
TEFL research in various fields ranging from literary studies and inter-/transcul-
tural learning to textbook analysis. He has inspired numerous young researchers
to pursue an academic career or use the knowledge and competences acquired
during their PhD in other fields of work. It is his motivating and encouraging
feedback that has inspired the authors and me, the editor of this volume, to con-
tribute to and publish this book.