Sara Peltokangas

PhD student

My research explores literature education, focusing on EFL teachers’ challenges in fostering student reading engagement. Above all, I am interested in how literature fosters critical thinking and aesthetic appreciation in language learning.

Presentation

Ongoing Research

The Role of Literature in EFL Teaching and Learning

My research explores the role of literature in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education, focusing on teachers’ justifications for incorporating literary texts and the challenges of fostering reading engagement. By examining the complex nature of literary engagement in upper secondary educational settings, my dissertation highlights the evolving role of literature in developing critical thinking and aesthetic appreciation in language learning.

Teaching

I have experience teaching Swedish and English at both lower and upper secondary levels. As a doctoral student, I primarily teach language and literature didactics courses in English, as well as Swedish, within both teacher education programs and single subject courses.

Organisation

Student meeting in library with books and tablet.

Division of Communication, Literature and Swedish (KLS)

We have basic course in Media and Communication Studies (MKV) and educate linguists and literary scholars via independent courses and subject teachers for different levels in the education system.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.