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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 children's literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picturebooks, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction. It examines the opportunities of children's literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children's |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Children's literature -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Study and teaching.
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Children -- Books and reading.
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Teenagers -- Books and reading
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Teaching of students with English as a second language (TESOL)
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Children's & teenage literature studies.
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Teaching of a specific subject.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Children -- Books and reading
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Children's literature -- Study and teaching
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English language -- Study and teaching
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Teenagers -- Books and reading
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Englischunterricht
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Fremdsprachenlernen
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Jugendliteratur
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441153395 |
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144115339X |
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9781472552808 |
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1472552806 |
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