Supporting Elementary Students’ Reading Through Authentic Literature for Children

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63444-9_10" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-63444-9_10</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Supporting Elementary Students’ Reading Through Authentic Literature for Children

Original language description

Research surveys carried out periodically by the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study show that the highest levels of reading literacy can be found in countries where literary texts are often used for teaching purposes. A direct relationship between the level of reading literacy and the use of literary texts in language education is thus suggested. Moreover, children’s literature seems to be good preparation for reading literary texts as adults. In the past few decades, the use of literary texts in ELT has been advocated in countries where English is the first language. Introducing children’s literature makes reading enjoyable, as literary texts develop the student’s whole personality and they can become an important ingredient of the language learning process. Literary texts should be introduced into the classroom. Drawing the students’ attention to literary texts can also lead to encouraging them to read more extensively outside their English class. Unfortunately, at present, very few literary texts are used in coursebooks in English language teaching context in the Czech Republic. This chapter discusses how this problem was addressed in two classroom contexts and in a teacher education course and it argues that literary texts can be used, not only at the elementary school level in this context but also in ELT classes at any school level.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50302 - Education, special (to gifted persons, those with learning disabilities)

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON TEACHING THE FOUR SKILLS IN ELT. Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

ISBN

978-3-319-63443-2

Number of pages of the result

11

Pages from-to

141-152

Number of pages of the book

260

Publisher name

Palgrave Macmillan

Place of publication

Cham,Switzerland

UT code for WoS chapter

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