This Is My Story (E-Book)
Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives in English Language Teaching
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Michael C. Prusse is Professor of English language teacher education at the Zurich University of Teacher Education, where he heads the Department of Master Programmes in Subject-Specific Education. His research focuses on language in professional contexts, pedagogical content knowledge, and on teaching literature in the ELT classroom. He has a particular interest in children’s and young adult narratives in various media formats.
Nikola Mayer is a professor for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (secondary level) at the University of Education Zurich / Switzerland. She has worked at several institutions focusing both on primary and secondary EFL education. Her present research interests lie in the field of reading graphic novels, enhancing visual literacy, multimodal literacy and multiliteracies; embedding young adult literature in the EFL classroom and on implementing reflective elements into EFL teacher education.
Descripción / Abstract
(Auto-)biographical storytelling is the ideal vehicle for English language teaching (ELT) because learners identify with individuals across cultures and media formats. Stories support language learning in a sustainable manner and contribute to intercultural understanding and cognitive development. This essay collection homes in on the intricacies and affordances of storytelling in ELT and encourages teachers and learners to engage with life stories across various forms of modal representations.
Índice
- BEGINN
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: “It’s Not Like Your Story, It’s My Story!”
- Meeting the Bard: Shakespeare, Time Travel and the EFL Classroom
- The Dark Horse: Exploring the Dimensions of Fictionality and Factuality in Biographical Films forthe Development of Film Literacy
- Reconceptualising Narrative Competences in English Language Education: Narrative Design and Digital Storytelling
- Experiments in Self-Narration: Women’s Scientific Autobiographies for the ELT Classroom
- Biographies of Migrants and Refugees: The Quandaries of Appropriation and Representation
- “I Remember …” – Working with Graphic Memoirs inthe Secondary EFL Classroom
- Hidden in Plain Sight: The Search for Identity and Selfin Graphic Novels
- “Little People, Big Dreams” for Little People with Big Dreams
- What the Snail Learned about Itself: Switching Perspectives with the Help of Picturebooks in the Primary EFL Classroom
- Lies and Betrayal: A Report from the Field
- Index
- Contributors