Teaching Literature and Language Online
- Editor: Ian Lancashire
- Pages: viii & 462 pp.
- Published: 2009
- ISBN: 9781603290579 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603290562 (Hardcover)
“I would highly recommend the text to both old and new online teachers.”
—The CEA Forum
Educators today teach in a range of formats, from traditional face-to-face courses to Web-assisted courses in physical classrooms to entirely online courses in which the teacher and students never meet in person. The pressure to integrate teaching with information technology is strong, and more and more educational institutions are offering blended courses and distance-education learning options.
The essays in this collection illuminate the realities of teaching language and literature courses online. Contributors present snapshots of their experiences with online pedagogies, realizing that, just as this year’s technology writes over last year’s, the approaches and teaching tools they have pioneered will also be obscured by future innovations. At the same time, the volume describes models that first-time teachers of online courses will find useful and provides extensive insights into online education for those who are experienced in teaching blended and open-source courses.
The volume begins with an overview of online education in the fields of literature and language and then offers case studies of particular technologies used in specific courses. Subjects extend from Old English and ancient world literature to Shakespeare and modern poetry, and languages include Aymara, Chinese, English as a second language, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Contributors describe using multimedia Web sites, cyberplay and gaming, bulletin boards, chat rooms, blogs, wikis, natural language processing, podcasting, course management systems, annotated electronic editions, text-analysis tools, and open-source applications. They show that online pedagogies often have surprising capabilities—such as transforming a Web-based environment into an intimate social community spanning institutions and oceans, saving endangered languages, and rescuing isolated communities and individuals who have no other educational lifeline.
Nike Arnold
Michael Best
Kristine Blair
Robert Blake
Laura L. Bush
Kathy Cawsey
Dorothy M. Chun
Martha Westcott Driver
James Fitzmaurice
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Dawn M. Formo
Kathryn M. Grossman
Elizabeth Hanson-Smith
David V. Hiple
William Kuskin
Gillian Lord
Gerald Lucas
Mary Ann Lyman-Hager
Jerome McGann
Murray McGillivray
Douglas Morgenstern
Noriko Nagata
Kimberly Robinson Neary
Michael Papio
Massimo Riva
Geoffrey Rockwell
Haun Saussy
Stéfan Sinclair
Martha Nell Smith
Stephen L. Tschudi
Introduction: Perspectives on Online Pedagogy (1)
Part I: Overview
From Web Pages to Distance Learning: Technology in the Foreign Language Curriculum (23)
Writing as Process and Online Education: Matching Pedagogy with Delivery (38)
Tools for Teaching Language and Literature Online (53)
Teaching World Languages Online (69)
Humane Studies in Digital Space (89)
Between Language and Literature: Digital Text Exploration (104)
Part II: Case Studies in Languages
Fostering Cohesion and Community in Asynchronous Online Courses (121)
Constructing Community: Online Response Groups in Literature and Writing Classrooms (147)
Language in Action: Supporting Foreign Language Literacy Development with Online Discussions (165)
Aymara on the Internet: Language Education and Preservation (177)
MITUPV: Language, Media, and Distance in an Online Community (190)
Part III: Case Studies in Literatures
The Literary Machine: Blogging the Literature Course (205)
The Literal and the Lateral: A Digital Early China for College Freshmen (217)
Old English Online at the University of Calgary (232)
Medieval Literature and Multimedia: The Pleasures and Perils of Internet Pedagogy (243)
Seeking the Best of Both Worlds: Online and Off-Line Shakespeare (254)
Writing, Reading, and Asynchronous Spontaneity in Online Teaching of Shakespeare (268)
Enabling Undergraduates to Understand Advanced Humanities Research: Teaching with the Dickinson Electronic Archives (278)
Solitary Confinement: Managing Relational Angst in an Online Classroom (290)
An Online Poetry Course (for Carol) (310)
Creating E-Learning Communities in Language and Literature Classes (331)
The Decameron Web, a Dozen Years Later (343)
Hybrid World Literature: Literary Culture and the New Machine (358)
World.Lit: Envisioning Literary Education Online (372)
An Online Japanese Textbook with Natural Language Processing (384)
The Open-Source English Teacher (410)
Enabling Intellectual Collaboration: The Use of Wikis and Blogs (427)
Resources (431)
Notes on Contributors (445)
Index of Names (451)
Index of Software (459)
“Technology has progressed from what some might have thought was a passing fad to occupy center stage in many English and foreign language departments. This is a very rich set of contributions that exemplify the major and current practices in the field.”
—Robert Fischer, executive director, CALICO; Texas State University
“The collection offers those of us who teach literatures and languages online some excellent resources and guidelines for improved pedagogy.”
—Rocky Mountain Review
