Engaging Linguistics and Literature: Perspectives and Insights beyond the Curriculum

This year’s Foliter takes Engaging Linguistics and Literature: Perspectives and Insights beyond the Curriculum as its theme. Such an issue is widely discussed in the recent postmodern global world, where established concepts and grand theories of linguistics and literature are reinterpreted and, in turn, affects the curriculum design and evaluation in the area of English Language Teaching. This tendency may also trigger the progress of linguistics and literature paradigms, not just within the curriculum but also beyond. The conference thus seeks to address the issues on the perspectives and insights in the application of the concepts of linguistics and literature in relation to the curriculum development. Our eagerness to hold the conference is one of the Department’s concerns on the increasing interests and demands for the higher quality of ELT which takes current issues in linguistics and literature as its bases for innovation. This conference is, therefore, supposed to be a momentous academic forum which may raise significant endeavors to escalate the ELT advancement with regard to linguistics and literature approaches. We hope that everyone will find the ideas presented in the forum inspiring and that the papers compiled in the proceeding enlightening for the engagement of linguistics and literature perspectives in the development of ELT curriculum