Welcome
This is the Home Page of the Literature, Media and Cultural Studies Special Interest Group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Please feel free to take a look around. For information about membership, news or other LMCS related matters please e-mail the SIG Coordinator David A. Hill . For website related enquiries contact carel.burghout@planet.nl
We are very much looking forward to our Contemporary Poetry Weekend in London on the 6th and 7th of November 2010. For details and Call for Papers click Events in the bar at the top of this page or Contemporary Poetry in the menu on the left.
We are also proud to announce a call for papers for a joint event with the Catholic University of Ruzomberok, Slovakia. For information, contact details and call for papers, please click Events in the bar at the top of this page.
David A. Hill
The latest LMCS Newsletter has arrived. Issue 37, July 2010, offers articles on appreciating and teaching a poem for EFL students, simplifying a literary text, American literature in the EFL classroom, Shakespeare in education, a reappraisal of John McGahern, Rushie and hybridity in East, West and a bookreview of On the Road. Asd always there is an editorial and news from the Coordinator's Desk. The Newsletter is available for non-members from IATEFL Head Office, details for contact are on the website at www.iaftefl.org