TY - BOOK ID - 78141471 TI - Literature in second language education PY - 2008 SN - 1474212263 1282875329 9786612875328 144116040X 9781441160409 9780826499165 0826499163 9781474212267 9781282875326 6612875321 9781441149923 1441149929 9781441116321 144111632X PB - London Continuum DB - UniCat KW - Second language acquisition. KW - Language and languages KW - Literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - Language arts KW - Foreign language study KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - Second language learning KW - Language acquisition KW - Study and teaching. KW - Study and teaching KW - Language and languages Study and teaching UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78141471 AB - This book proposes the study of literary texts as a vital component of L2 linguistic and cultural knowledge. The research, conducted with students of Italian in Australia , is situated in the wider L2 context, and compared to studies on students' perceptions of English and French literary texts in countries such as Canada , Italy , Australia , Germany and the Ukraine . The first part of the book takes the debate on the inclusion of literature in language education as a springboard for posing crucial questions about how students, and educators, view literature. The theoretical framework draws f ER -