Before the seminar starts, each student should have read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince" and the two articles on children's literature and teaching literature in the EFL classroom to be found under these links:

http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Ch-Co/Children-s-Literature.html

and

http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Savvidou-Literature.html

Please note that regular and active participation is a requirement.

Short stories can be used for TEFL on every language level. Short stories for the EFL classroom range from very simple stories to fairy tales and graded versions of well-known literary short stories. We will discuss famous short-story authors and their characters and negotiate appropriate ways of implementing them for TEFL. Before the seminar starts, each student should have read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Oscar Wilde's "The Happy Prince". Further texts will be provided for copying in a reader.