Children

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Childrens Literature and English Teaching

• Sherri Wei
• Fall 2007
• Mon 1340 1630
• LB 301

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Questions

• What is childrens literature?
• What is purpose of language teaching?
• Why childrens literature for English teaching
  learning?
• How do teachers integrate childrens literature
  into current curriculum and lesson planning?

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Course Structure
Genres fairy tales, fantasy, Nursery
rhymes poetry Non-fiction
TESOL Methods CLT Content-based Task-based
learning Whole language approach
Language Learning Theories Second Language
Acquisition Constructivist Vygotskys ZPD (Zone
of Proximal Development)
Literary Analysis Cultural studies Multicultural
ism Multiple Intelligence Reader Response
Theory Piagets Theory of cognitive development
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The Historical Development of Language
Teaching Methodology
Communicative Language Teaching
Situational Approach
TPR
Grammar Translation
The Lexical Approach
1900 1950 1960
1970 1980
1990
Pre-Method Methods Era
Post Method Era Based
on Richards Rodgers, Approaches and Methods in
Language Teaching 2001
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WH Questions

• What is the features of childrens literature?
• What are the genres of childrens literature?
• What is the purpose of childrens literature?
  What are the values we want to pass on to our
  children?
• How do we perceived children?
• How do we teach with/through childrens
  literature?
• How do we plan lessons integrating childrens
  literature?

• 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?

What Why How Who Where When
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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

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Tentative Schedule
11/12 Media and popular culture as context for CL Reading behavior observation
11/19 Content-based Language Teaching Lesson planning Graphic Communicator
11/26 International Literature English as an International Language
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
9/17 Course Orientation
10/1 Traditional childrens literature
10/8 Fairy tales The witch must die?
10/15 Fantasy vs. Reality Reader-response theories
10/22 Picture books Ruby Bridges Salem witch hunt Whole language approach
10/29 Poetry Shel Silverstein Constructivists Vygotsky Piaget
11/5 Media and popular culture as context for CL Reading behavior observation
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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