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Peer reviewedSpolsky, Ellen – ELT Journal, 1988
Argues that resisting reading, a kind of reading learned from recent feminist literary criticism, is a way of ensuring that learning about a foreign culture does not lead to the destruction of one's own identity. Students can read texts they are not sympathetic with because understanding does not mean accepting. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Feminism
