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Children’s Literature and English Teaching Sherri Wei Fall 2007 Mon 13:40 – 16:30 LB 301 Questions • What is children’s literature? • What is purpose of language teaching? • Why children’s literature for English teaching & learning? • How do teachers integrate children’s literature into current curriculum and lesson planning? Course Structure Genres : fairy tales, fantasy, Nursery rhymes poetry & Non-fiction Children’s Literature Literary Analysis & Cultural studies Multiculturalism Multiple Intelligence Reader Response Theory Piaget’s Theory of cognitive development English Teaching TESOL Methods : CLT Content-based Task-based learning Whole language approach Language Learning Theories: Second Language Acquisition Constructivist Vygotsky’s ZPD (Zone of Proximal Development) The Historical Development of Language Teaching Methodology The Direct Method Situational The Oral Approach Approach Communicative Language Teaching TPR T P R Cooperative Learning The Silent Way Content-Based Learning Task-Based Learning Grammar Audio-lingual Suggestopedia Translation Situational Community Lang. Learning The Lexical Approach 1900 1950 Pre-Method 1960 1970 1980 1990 Methods Era Post Method Era Based on Richards & Rodgers, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching 2001 WH Questions What • • What is the features of children’s literature? • What are the genres of • children’s literature? Why • What is the purpose of children’s literature? What are • the values we want to pass on to our children? • How • How do we perceived children? • How do we teach with/through • Who children’s literature? • How do we plan lessons Where • integrating children’s literature? When What does it mean to learn a language? What is the relationship between teaching and learning a language? How do we acquire a new (second / foreign) language? What kind of English are we teaching? What is the role of English outside of the classroom? How do we design curriculum and plan lessons in this particular context? Grading Policy • • • • • • In-class & Online participation 10 % Book talk or Author study (pair) 10% Journals 20% Group Presentation 20 % Observation paper (Individual) 20 % Thematic lesson plan (Group) 20 % Tentative Schedule 9/17 Course Orientation 11/12 Media and popular culture as context for CL Reading behavior observation 10/1 Traditional children’s literature 11/19 10/8 Fairy tales The witch must die? Content-based Language Teaching Lesson planning: Graphic Communicator 11/26 International Literature English as an International Language 10/15 Fantasy vs. Reality Reader-response theories 10/22 Picture books Ruby Bridges & Salem witch hunt Whole language approach 10/29 11/5 Poetry: Shel Silverstein Constructivists: Vygotsky & Piaget Media and popular culture as context for CL Reading behavior observation 12/3 Author Studies: Eric Carle, Kevin Henks, Dr. Suess 12/10 Thematic Unit: Christmas 12/17 Integrating drama into story telling 12/24 Bibliotherapy Missing May & Tuck Everlasting 1/7 Thematic Unit Presentation 1/14 Course evaluation Personal Profile • • • • Your name Self portrait Contact info (email and/or phone number) Courses taken related to this course [both linguistic & Literature] • Your motivation & expectation of the course