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READING KAFKA IN QATAR Qatar-TESOL Conference, April 2011 Magdalena Rostron Academic Bridge Program Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar mrostron@qf.org.qa Introduction my story Reading Kafka In Qatar Reading Kafka in Qatar


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READING KAFKA IN QATAR

Qatar-TESOL Conference, April 2011 Magdalena Rostron Academic Bridge Program Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar mrostron@qf.org.qa

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  • Introduction – my story
  • Reading
  • Kafka
  • In Qatar
  • Reading Kafka in Qatar – reflections
  • n the teaching experience
  • Conclusions?
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Introduction

  • My intercultural experience as a NNES

teacher of Polish national and educational background teaching English to Arab Qatari students preparing to study in American or British universities

  • Consequences for my teaching philosophy

and methodology

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Reading

  • Development of reading
  • The act of reading and its position in

contemporary cultural and educational discourse (“secondary orality” and academic literacy)

  • Reading as an academic skill
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“When Gregor Samsa woke up

  • ne morning from unsettling

dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

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Kaf afka

  • Potential cultural pitfalls awaiting

western teachers and academics when faced with a choice of appropriate and relevant reading materials and classroom resources

  • Choice of reading materials - options

and constraints

  • Cultural relevance
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In In Qa Qata tar

Localising the context of teaching reading in a culture based on oral and Islamic traditions of knowledge transmission:

  • Culture and society
  • Educational background
  • Language shift (Arabic => English)
  • Student motivation
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Reading Kafka in Qatar

Reflections on the Kafka teaching experience:

1: Excessive expectations 2: Frustration 3: Change of approach 4: Internalisation - possible?

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No conclusions

New questions, problems, directions: A work in progress…

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“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”

Joseph Addison