Empowering language learners through children's literature
This paper argues how from a meta-cognitive perspective, children's literature is able to empower English language learners in two areas: improving their literacy skills as well as increasing their awareness of the collective need to preserve the environment. Using eco-criticism as its theoreti...
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| author | Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral |
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| description | This paper argues how from a meta-cognitive perspective, children's literature is able to empower English language learners in two areas: improving their literacy skills as well as increasing their awareness of the collective need to preserve the environment. Using eco-criticism as its theoretical framework, this research employs a meta-cognitive, close-reading analysis of K. S. Maniam's "Top Winner" and Iain Buchanan's "Fatimah's Kampung". The texts are found to employ nature and specific narrative styles in engaging and encouraging readers to read productively, and at the same time, critically assess their abilities to positively affect the environment in the 21st century. |
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| spelling | iium-376362015-01-06T01:49:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/ Empowering language learners through children's literature Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral PE English PN0080 Criticism PZ Childrens literature This paper argues how from a meta-cognitive perspective, children's literature is able to empower English language learners in two areas: improving their literacy skills as well as increasing their awareness of the collective need to preserve the environment. Using eco-criticism as its theoretical framework, this research employs a meta-cognitive, close-reading analysis of K. S. Maniam's "Top Winner" and Iain Buchanan's "Fatimah's Kampung". The texts are found to employ nature and specific narrative styles in engaging and encouraging readers to read productively, and at the same time, critically assess their abilities to positively affect the environment in the 21st century. CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND PRE-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT 2014 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/1/Empowering_Language_Learners_Through_Children%27s_Literature.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/4/Binder1.pdf Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral (2014) Empowering language learners through children's literature. In: 3rd International Languages Conference 2014 (ILC 2014), 22nd - 24th April 2011, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) http://www.iium.edu.my/ilc/ |
| spellingShingle | PE English PN0080 Criticism PZ Childrens literature Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral Empowering language learners through children's literature |
| title | Empowering language learners through children's literature |
| title_full | Empowering language learners through children's literature |
| title_fullStr | Empowering language learners through children's literature |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering language learners through children's literature |
| title_short | Empowering language learners through children's literature |
| title_sort | empowering language learners through children's literature |
| topic | PE English PN0080 Criticism PZ Childrens literature |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/1/Empowering_Language_Learners_Through_Children%27s_Literature.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/4/Binder1.pdf |