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" Unraveling the Affordances of 'Silas Marner' in a Japanese University EFL Context "
Canning, Nicholas Alexander; Nelson, Mark Evan
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AL
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926495
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LA2s12g7bh
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English
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Canning, Nicholas Alexander; Nelson, Mark Evan
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Unraveling the Affordances of 'Silas Marner' in a Japanese University EFL Context [Article]\ Canning, Nicholas Alexander; Nelson, Mark Evan
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L2 Journal
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10/2
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2018
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Graded readers, simplified versions of literature and other texts at graduated levels of difficulty, are widely employed in contexts of foreign language pedagogy and are widely considered to be a form of written-language input ostensibly suitable for a wide array of developmental stages. However, the efficacy of graded readers is not unchallenged, among which criticisms is that the language in a graded work of literature is, by nature, aesthetically inert and inauthentic, in comparison to the original. Still, from an L2 literacies-development perspective, could one not justifiably accept that aesthetic impoverishment and inauthenticity are reasonable, perhaps also unavoidable, compromises? Practically, what, for example, could a typical intermediate-level learner of EFL be expected to glean from a nineteenth-century English novel? Would the language-learning needs of this learner not be better addressed through engagement with an appropriately graded version of the same novel, facilitating optimally fluent—and, therefore, assumedly more enjoyable and motivating—reading practice?
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