This study builds upon work in task-based language teaching and literary studies
to explore the use of fan fiction as a pedagogical tool in a technology-enhanced
university foreign language class. A task-based fan fiction project, The Blogging
Hobbit, modelled on blog-based role-play storytelling found in online media
fandoms, was carried out in a first-year university course for undergraduate
learners of English who were also training to become secondary school English
teachers in Sweden. Students were organized into groups, in which each
member was responsible for voicing a single character from Tolkien’s novel The
Hobbit in a blog-based collaborative role-play of a missing moment from the
story. Findings revealed that carefully sequenced collaborative fan fiction could
facilitate analysis of a literary text, learners’ use of creative writing techniques,
and language development, particularly at the level of lexis

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• Report from Middle-Earth: fan fiction tasks in the EFL classroom

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