Applying Extensive Reading of British Literature in the ESP Context

P. 674–683.

Polyakova S., Yakovleva E., Gritsenko E., Mishlanova S., Remizova V., Lane J.

The paper presents the advantages of the integration of extensive reading of contemporary British literature in the original and the graded texts based on British Literature into EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teaching non-linguist students of the Humanities and Sciences at Perm State University, Russia. This topic is among those burning issues of ESP teaching/learning discourse studies in Russia and abroad which are being intensively integrated into one interdisciplinary field. Literary texts in a classroom are targeted at increasing the students’ interest and intrinsic motivation, providing variety, encouraging cultural understanding, introducing social, political, emotional and economic issues and improving their foreign language in the professionally oriented field. The Extensive Reading technology proved to be a valuable digital tool in the Covid-19 and post Covid-19 educational environment. Three projects on ER for ESP classes are analyzed in the paper. The results of the ER integration in the ESP through the analyses of the students’ reflections are presented as well

Keywords: English for specific purposes (ESP), Extensive reading, Contemporary British literature

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Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century - Science and Technology: Proceedings of the International Perm Forum “Science and Global Challenges of the 21st Century”

Vol. 342. , Springer, 2022.