Bridging the Humor Barrier
eBook - PDF

Bridging the Humor Barrier

Humor Competency Training in English Language Teaching

  1. 301 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bridging the Humor Barrier

Humor Competency Training in English Language Teaching

About this book

The language barrier is a familiar term, but what exactly is the humor barrier? Humor is a universal phenomenon, but the cultural variance in how humor is used can prove to be a major obstacle for English language learners hoping to communicate effectively in cross-cultural contexts. While a growing number of researchers have explored the importance of helping language learners better understand the humor of the target culture, in Bridging the Humor Barrier: Humor Competency Training in English Language Teaching, editors John Rucynski Jr. and Caleb Prichard bring together language teachers and researchers from a range of cultural and teaching contexts to tackle how to actually overcome the humor barrier. This book empirically examines humor competency training and presents related research bearing implications for humor training. Contributors address a wide range of genres of humor, providing fresh insights into helping language learners deepen their understanding and appreciation of the humor of the English-speaking world, including jokes, sarcasm, and satire. This book is an excellent resource for English language teachers looking to help their learners avoid the pitfalls and reap the benefits of humor in the target language.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Part I HUMOR COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT OUTSIDE THE CLASS
  4. Chapter 1 Working Backward from Funny
  5. Chapter 2 Humor Competency
  6. Chapter 3 Feeling Inadequate
  7. Part II INTEGRATED HUMOR INSTRUCTION
  8. Chapter 4 Humor-Integrated Language Learning (HILL)
  9. Chapter 5 Junior High English Textbook Interactional Humor
  10. Chapter 6 Reading Jokes in English
  11. Part III EXPLICIT HUMOR COMPETENCY TRAINING
  12. Chapter 7 Humor Competency Training for Sarcasm and Jocularity
  13. Chapter 8 Theory, Content Knowledge, Input, and Output
  14. Chapter 9 Using Diaries to Research and Develop Humor Competence in a Second Language
  15. Chapter 10 Training English Language Learners to Recognize English Satirical News
  16. Index
  17. About the Contributors