Responding to literary narrative texts with visual reformulations: A look at the cultural dimension of EFL reading

PORTO, MELINA

Bahía Blanca

Conferencia; XXXIV FAAPI CONFERENCE; 2009

FAAPI y British Council Argentina

?Responding to literary narrative texts with visual reformulations: A look at the cultural dimension of EFL reading?. En Fernández, D. (Ed.) Teachers in Action. Making the latest trends work in the classroom. ISBN 978-987-98045-1-3. (pp.338-344). Páginas totales: 378. También en CD. 2009 The research reported here is part of a broader study which addressed the issue of the role of cultural factors in foreign/second language (hereafter L2) reading. The specific aim of this report is to describe how L2 readers approached the cultural content of narrative texts through visual reformulations.  A visual reformulation can be defined as the visual representation of textual content including the combination of words, phrases, and/or sentences with visual information in different formats such as charts, tables, drawings, etc.