Teaching cosmopolitanism through transnational literature in English: an empirical evaluation of students' competence development in a life-writing approach to teaching literature (New edition.)

This title deals with the question how students in multicultural EFL-classrooms can be prepared for their role as world citizens.

The author shows that teaching English offers important potentials for cosmopolitan education due to its role as a 'lingua franca'.

The study develops the construct cosmopolitan communicative competence as a theoretical framework.

It also presents a teaching approach that combines students' life-writing with the discussion of literary texts to advance the associated knowledge, skills and attitudes.

The potentials of this approach are evaluated through the assessment of students' competence development.