Taking Literature and Language Learning Online

Introduction, Amos Paran (Institute of Education, University College London, UK) and Sandra Stadler-Heer (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany)
Part I: Literary Responses in Times of Crisis
1. Literary Narratives as Recordings of the Pandemic Present: The New York Times Magazine's Decameron Project, Ingrid Gessner (University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria)
2. Pandemic Literature: What It Is, Why It Should Be Taught and How, Engelbert Thaler (University of Augsburg, Germany)
II. Researching and Teaching Literature for/to Young Learners
3. Identifying Quality in Asynchronous, Pre-recorded Picturebook Read-Alouds for Children Learning English as a Foreign Language, Gail Ellis (Independent Researcher, France) and Sandie Mourão (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
4. Digital Picturebooks in Times of Crisis: From Picturebooks about the Coronavirus to Developing Critical Environmental Literacies, Theresa Summer (University of Würzburg, Germany)
III. Researching and Teaching Literature in Online Teacher Education
5. Exploiting the Educational Potential of Literature in English Language Teaching: Continuity and Change in Digital Literature Teaching, Christine Gardemann (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
6. Conducting Story-based Activities in Times of Social Distancing, Annett Kaminski (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
IV. Tools and Concepts for Teaching Literature Online
7. Implementing a Collaborative Reading Project Online: Solutions for a Pedagogically Meaningful Virtual Workshop, Jennifer Schumm Fauster (University of Graz, Austria)
8. Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Approach for Meaningful Learning: Alternative Implementations of Technology in the Libyan EFL Context, Fatma Abu-Baker (University of Edinburgh, UK) and Hana A. El-Badri (University of Benghazi, Lybia)
9. Simple and Engaging Fiction for Adult Beginners, Pedro Malard Monteiro (Universidade Federal de Uberlandia, Brazil), Margaret Wilkinson (Newcastle University, UK) and Martha Young-Scholten (Newcastle University, UK)
10. Annotating Literary Texts on Conceptboard: Philological Practice in the Digital Classroom, Verena Laschinger (University of Erfurt, Germany)
11. Writing the Future -Collaborative Creative Science-Fiction Writing in the Virtual EFL Classroom, Christian Ludwig and Elizabeth Shipley (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
Afterword: Closing Reflections on the Brave New World of Literature and Language Education Online, Geoff Hall (University of Nottingham-Ningbo, China)
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