{"product_id":"literature-with-a-small-l-john-mcrae-9781938757914","title":"Literature with a Small 'l': Developing Thinking Skills in Language Teaching and Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor decades, the traditional \"four skills\" approach to language learning and teaching has focused on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The one huge omission, the all-important \u003cb\u003ethinking \u003c\/b\u003eskill, has been left out of most methodological approaches. But all learners, teachers, and workers in the field know the vital importance of the humanist skills. Interpretation, sympathy and empathy, affect, cultural awareness, and context are indispensable. Metaphors and representational uses of language are everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSimilarly, \"Literature\" tends to be represented as some kind of upmarket language use-it is given an institutional capital L, as if to show how important it is. This book restores imaginative \"literary\" materials to their proper, everyday place in language use and therefore in language learning. It presents a thorough, teacher- and learner-friendly methodological approach to using imaginative texts of all kinds in language teaching and learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the book that set the trend towards creative reading and thinking, the use of representational materials in language learning and teaching, and has encouraged the development of personal response and interpretation, leading to greater and more confident self-expression, and opened up the doors of readers' and learners' imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John McRae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1938757912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781938757914\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wayzgoose Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"John McRae","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074997678335,"sku":"9781938757914","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3700b529-dce0-483d-a90d-09cad9516401.jpg?v=1685457007","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-with-a-small-l-john-mcrae-9781938757914","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}