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Jennifer Gipson How could something so dusty sounding as “folklore” keep pace with the ever-changing world spotlighted in the 2007 MLA report? In the academic sense, folklore is not dated but dynamic. It includes things like stereotypes, pervasive metaphors, and the national imagination—all cited in the MLA report. Through examples from a special section of French 4 developed for summer 2008, my presentation examines folklore in light of the goals of translingual and transcultural competence. This course uses folklore and its adaptations in literature, music, advertising to help students see links between various forms of cultural expression. The class’s blog-based “folklore archives” allow students to collect and post online materials like jokes or urban legends and relate them to current events, course readings, or their own tradition |