Cultural canon and mediation in the EFL classroom
A playful-pedagogy approach
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https://doi.org/10.17398/1888-4067.19.1.81Keywords:
Spanish teaching, mediation, Rosalía de Castro, Playful pedagogyAbstract
After a long period of stigmatization, translation is once again taking a prominent place in language teaching (Díaz Ferrero & García Benito 2020; Mraček 2015; Carreres et al. 2018).
This article documents the implementation of translation and mediation materials fo-cussed on Galician author Rosalía de Castro in a third-level SFL classroom in the Irish educational context.
From the lens of playful pedagogy (Nørgård 2021, 2024; Sobral & Santucci 2024), I argue the importance of carving spaces for creativity and playfulness in the language classroom, not only as a means towards meaningful learning, but also as a path of resistance against the division between language and literary studies, rather entrenched in higher education environments.
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