The Applicability of Picturebooks to Teach English as a Foreign Language

Guillén, María Teresa Fleta

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-5796-8.ch006

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“…Regarding the linguistic value of picture books, researchers emphasized using vocabulary, picture words, and short sentences to help children understand new and challenging vocabulary (Ab Rahman & Chiu, 2022;Guillén, 2019). Meanwhile, the interaction of pictures and words can work together to improve students' visual and verbal reading skills (Birketveit, 2015).…”

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Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Wang,

Saihong,

Sonsupap

2024

ijole

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This cross-sectional study examined materials adaptation within an English-Chinese bilingual storytelling curriculum for first graders to identify the potential factors influencing adaptation choice. It delved into the relationship between curriculum objectives, perceptions of picture books, and the use of tense and narrative. A survey (N=352) gathered demographic data of English teachers from China, and the data was analyzed using Partial Least Square (PLS) structural equation modeling. Findings illuminate how teachers’ perception of picture books fully mediate the interplay between bilingual storytelling curriculum objectives and teachers’ narrative in a picture book adaptation. Analyzing the results by narrative theory, it found that the essence of storytelling and narrative is making meanings; stories play a leading role in the curriculum for first graders to develop their bilingual narrative through sharing, reading, and telling stories. Consequently, teachers’ understanding of picture books’ possibilities as teaching materials, benefits for fostering students’ bilingual development, and perception of the intertextuality of illustration and words can significantly facilitate teachers’ narrative in a picture book adaptation. This study contributes by elucidating the mediating role of picture books, emphasizing the importance of linking curriculum objectives with teaching materials adaptation in practice. Furthermore, longitudinal research is to overcome the limitations of this cross-sectional correlation analysis.

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confidence: 99%

Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Wang,

Saihong,

Sonsupap

2024

ijole

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Implementation of local culture curriculum in an English Scenario Classroom on Taiwanese sixth graders’ environmental and vocabulary knowledge

Lu¹,

Chien

2022

Education 3-13

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Motivating self and others through a whole-school storytelling project: Authentic language & literacy development

Waddington

2020

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This study reports on a whole-school project carried out with preschool and primary children, taking a whole-language approach to literacy development, through a storytelling methodology which uses authentic picturebooks and peer modelling. This article presents the results of an exploratory mixed methods study conducted over a three-year period with the older (10-12-year-old) participants in the project (N=27). Within an action research framework, data was collected from field notes of classroom observations, video recorded sessions, questionnaires and interviews with students and teachers. The study aims to assess the motivational effect of the storytelling project on learners, identify the learning outcomes generated and identify strategies that were particularly effective in generating such outcomes. Through a process-oriented approach, the findings verify the motivational effect of the storytelling project. These findings also help bridge the gap between theory and practice in motivational research and contribute to the growing body of literature on the use of authentic picturebooks in the L2 classroom and the potential benefits of peer modelling.

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The Applicability of Picturebooks to Teach English as a Foreign Language

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Understanding the Dynamics of Materials Adaptation in An English-Chinese Bilingual Storytelling Curriculum for First Graders

Implementation of local culture curriculum in an English Scenario Classroom on Taiwanese sixth graders’ environmental and vocabulary knowledge

Motivating self and others through a whole-school storytelling project: Authentic language & literacy development

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