Using literature in English language education : challenging reading for 8-18 year olds
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London New York :
Bloomsbury Academic
c2018
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: the challenge of literature
- 2. The graphic novel: Brian Selznick's the invention of hugo cabret, wonderstruck and the marvels
- 3. Playscript and screenplay: creativity with J. K. Rowling's wizarding world
- 4. The wordless picturebook: literacy in multilingual contexts and David Wiesner's worlds
- 5. The picturebook in elementary ELT: multiple literacies with Bob Staake's bluebird
- 6. Story apps: the challenge of interactivity
- 7. Transmedial reading : Tim Winton's Lockie Leornard trilogy
- 8. Literature in language education: challenges for theory building
- 9. Diversity in love-themed fiction: John Green's the fault in our stars and David Levithan's princes
- 10. Popular culture head on: Suzanne Collins's the hunger games
- 11. Thought experiments with science fiction: Ursurla Le Guin's the ones who walk away from omelas
- 12. Environmental havoc in teen fiction: speculating futures
- 13. Hamlet, Ophelia and teenage rage: Michael Lesslie's prince of Denmark
- 14. Negotiating the challenges of reading literature: teachers reporting on their practice
- 15. Afterword: thoughts on the way ahead