Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment: Children and Teenagers in English Language Education

ISBN-13: 9781474218351 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Publication date: 01/29/2015 Edition description: Reprint Pages: 344 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) 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 literature as a gate-opener for canonised adult literature; the rich patterning of children's literature supporting Creative Writing; the potential of interactive drama projects. Close readings of texts at the centre of contemp