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1982 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Françoise Howard
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
University Of Chicago Press ◽  
Foreign Language Skills

scholarly journals Increasing Engagement in French and Francophone Studies: Structured Journaling on the Emotions in La Fayette's La princesse de Clèves

PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
pp. 1476-1480
Author(s):  
Logan J. Connors
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Francophone Studies ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Difficult Subject ◽  
Foreign Language Skills

Literary representations of emotions fascinate us as readers; they connect to us logically and naturally because we experience in our daily lives many of the emotional events depicted in novels, plays, and poems. Students are intrigued by the similarities and differences between their everyday feelings and the emotions represented in literature. Emotions are thus interesting processes to study, and in classroom discussions and activities most students have something to say about them. For this reason, I use emotion (broadly defined) as an important subject of inquiry in my literature and culture classes. In what follows, I share a structured journaling assignment based on emotion that helps students read with more detail, improves their foreign language skills, and boosts their engagement with difficult subject matter.

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