This book examines how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices in an EFL classroom. It takes a multi-faceted approach to how English language teaching and learning can best be developed through presentation and exploration of literary texts.

Introduction; Masayuki Teranishi, Yoshifumi Saito and Katie WalesPART I: CURRENT ISSUES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW APPROACHES1. Recent Developments in Uses of Literature in Language Teaching; Geoff Hall2. Literary Texts as Authentic Materials for Language Learning: The Current Situation in Japan; Kazuko Takahashi3. Bridging the Gap between L1 Education and L2 Education; Aiko Saito4. From Reading to Writing: Creative Stylistics as a Methodology for Bridging the Gap between Literary Appreciation and Creative Writing in ELT; Yoshifumi Saito5. Unpacking and Evaluating Properties in Conceptual Metaphor Domain Mapping: Cognitive Stylistics as a Language Learning Tool; Michael Burke6. Playing with Words and Pictures: Using Post-modernist Picturebooks as a Resource with Teenage and Adult Language Learners; Gillian LazarPART II: EMPIRICAL AND CASE STUDIES7. Achievement Tests for Literary Reading in General EFL Reading Courses; Takayuki Nishihara8. A Stylistic Approach to Digital Texts: Teaching Literary Texts Through New Media; Soichiro Oku9. The Effects of Literary Texts on Students' Sentence Recognition: Translation Tasks and Comprehension Tasks; Tomohide Ishihara and Akira Ono10. Benefits of Teaching Speech/Thought Presentation: Developing Language Awareness Through Reading Austen and Eliot; Tetsuko Nakamura11. Teaching English Novels in the EFL Classroom; Masayuki Teranishi12. Using Short Stories in University Composition Classrooms; Kyoko Kuze13. Translation of Japanese Poems into English: Literature in the First Language as a Motive to Communication in a Second Language; Kiyo Sakamoto14. Literary Reading Circles and Short Essay Activities for English Learning Among Medical Students; Yuka Kusanagi15. The Role of Literature in Foreign Language Learning; Masako Nasu16. The First Step towards a Critical Perspective:The Practice of Evidence-based Explanation of a Literary Text in Book Clubs; Hiroko Sugimura17. The Use of a Literary Text in an Extensive Reading Programme: Reading Murakami's 'Super-Frog Saves Tokyo' in the World Café; Motoko Fukaya18. Increasing Motivation and Building Bridges to Content with Graded Readers; Mark D. Sheehan19. Pedagogical Stylistics in an ELT Teacher Training Setting: A Case Study; Marina LambrouEpilogue; Ronald Carter