Book review. Bell, Nancy & Pomerantz, Anne (2016). Humor in the Classroom. A Guide for Language Teachers and Educational Researchers. New York: Routledge.

• Authors: Spyridoula Gasteratou
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Have you ever, as a language teacher, as an educational researcher, or just as a language learner considered humor, language play, or generally funny and playful language use as an integral part of language teaching and learning? Have you ever considered that humor and language play are not just for entertainment and laughter, but could guide language learners to an overall understanding of language use in interaction? If you have these questions, if you already think that humor and language play do not belong in educational spaces, or if you search some reasons to incorporate them into the language classroom, you would rather grab Bell & Pomerantz's book to find your answers, to rethink your ideas and -why not- to change your view as regards to humour and language play in classroom discourse.

Keywords

EN

Humour, Identities, Second language teaching/learning

• Publisher: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies
• Journal: The European Journal of Humour Research
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2018

online

2018-06-13

Contributors

author

Spyridoula Gasteratou