Lecture on mediation, literature and multicultural competence

The series of guest lectures “Seven months, seven universities” launches its eleventh episode with a webinar in Spanish: “Mediación, literatura y competencia pluricultural” by professor Inés Guerrero Espejo from the University of Granada. The online workshop will take place on 28th April at 4 pm CEST and it will be broadcast live on the Arqus YouTube channel.

The objective of the talk is to analyse the different activities and strategies for the mediation of creative texts proposed in the Companion Volume (CV) of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Firstly, Inés Guerrero will reflect on the importance of literature in language learning and analyse the proposal made by the CV concerning the mediation of creative texts. The professor will continue the lecture by focusing on the analysis of different tasks with literacy texts from the reception, analysis, criticism and creation of them. Finally, the author will address pluricultural competence in different contexts or teaching-learning situations to raise awareness and encourage exchange between one’s own and other people’s cultures.

Inés Guerrero holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the University of Granada (UGR). Since 1998, she is a professor of ELE and Spanish-American Literature at the Centro de Lenguas Modernas of the UGR. She is the internship coordinator of the Official Master’s Degree in ELE of the UGR and a member of its Academic Committee. She has also been a member of the Scientific Committee of CORRIENTES, the Norwegian Journal of Hispanic Studies (SIN 0804-7383) of the University of Bergen. She has published an essay on the images of women in literature and has published several articles on Hispanic American literature and literature in the ELE classroom. Currently she belongs to the research group HUM-1019: Grupo de Estudios Literarios y Culturales iberoamericanos (GELCI) and to the AICLE in University Context research group at the Centro de Lenguas Modernas of the UGR.

Table of contents of the online lecture:

1. Mediar textos creativos.

1.1. No es solo una cuestión estética.

1.2. Los textos literarios han estado siempre.

2. Actividades y estrategias.

2.1. Expresar una reacción personal a textos creativos. Análisis de propuestas.

2.2. Analizar y criticar textos creativos. Análisis de propuestas.

3. De lo uno a lo diverso: comparar literaturas en el aula de idiomas. La competencia pluricultural.

3.1. Aprovechamiento del repertorio pluricultural.

3.2. Propuesta: ¿Sobre qué trata el libro?

4. Conclusiones.

This is the eleventh of a series of guest lectures (“Seven months, seven universities”) to be offered in the framework of the Action Line 4 of Arqus, Multilingual and Multicultural University (sub-line 4.8). These lectures focus on specific topics related to language and culture and target mainly graduate and post-graduate students as well as early-stage researchers interested in those topics.