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Children's literature and learner empowerment : children and teenagers in English language education /
Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: The EFL-Literature Classroom; Implications of ever-younger EFL classrooms; Well-crafted versus poorly crafted texts, language and content; The literacy spectrum; Reading as empowerment; Part 1 Visual Literacy in the EFL-Literature Classroom; Chapter 2 Developing the Mind's Eye with Picturebooks; The challenge of children's multimodal literary texts; Literacy and picturebooks; A cumulative progression in the EFL-literature classroom; The scope of picturebooks; Note.
- Chapter 3 Bridging a Curricular Gap with Graphic NovelsThe contribution of graphic novels in the EFL-literature classroom; The emotional homelessness of adolescence and the home/away/home story; Developing literary skills with lower intermediate learners: Baum and Cavallaro's The Wizard of Oz: The Graphic Novel; Part 2 Literary Literacy in the EFL-Literature Classroom; Chapter 4 Postmodern Fairy Tales: Co-constructing Meaning; Stepping-stones to co-constructing meaning; Gaining confidence as perceptive 'gap' readers with literary texts; The literature canon and schema-refreshing discourse.
- The motivational power of excessAn exemplar for teacher education: Scieszka and Smith's The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! By A. Wolf; Note; Chapter 5 The Poetry of Children's Literature and Creative Writing; Children's oral culture: A challenge to the language/literature dichotomy; Language patterning in children's literature: The form/meaning dichotomy; Note; Chapter 6 Children's Plays: Beyond the Oracy/Literacy Dichotomy; Drama processes; Play, plays and performance; Plays for children; Part 3 Critical Cultural Literacy in the EFL-Literature Classroom.
- Chapter 7 Radical Children's Literature and Engaged ReadingArguments for engaged reading with children's literature; Global issues and children's literature; FREE? Stories About Human Rights in the EFL-literature classroom; Note; Chapter 8 Harry Potter and Critical Cultural Literacy; Extensive reading with Harry Potter; Intensive reading: The 'English Literature Canon' versus Harry Potter in the EFL-literature classroom; Empowerment of the reader with Harry Potter; Looking at character in Harry Potter; Harry Potter and global issues; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; References; Index.