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Topic 15e
Topic 15e
Topic 15e
OUTLINE :
0. INTRODUCTION
2. TEXT TYPOLOGIES
3. CONCLUSION
4. BIBLIOGRAPHY
0. INTRODUCTION
This unit will deal with the most popular works in different periods and
differents authors and genres of children literature, and with different
types of story books or children. We will finish with a conclusion and the
bibliography used.
Before the 18th c. Children could read books like Aesop’s Fables, romances,
travel books, chapbooks, boardside ballads<, for example, Bunyan’s
<pilgrim’s Progress (1678 ) , Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Swift’s
Gullivesr’s Travels. They were books written for adults. It was not until the
middle or the 18th century That books were specially written for chiuldren . (
Although in France it was a little better, children had books such as
Perrault’s Fairy tales, so popular ( or The Arabian Nights ) translated to
English in early 18th c. )
There was a demand for children’s books and John Newbery, a book seller
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( There were some of whose books imitations ) but, it was in the letter half
of the 18th c. When works in juvenile literature appeaared. Kwown works
like The History os sandford and Merton by Thomas Day, Fabolous Histories
by Sarah Trimment, Evenings at Home by John Aikin and Mrs Barbauld, The
Parents’s Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth ( The novelist ) And in the 19thc. ,
Charles and Mary Lamb wrote Tales from Shakespeare.
The history of verse written for children is quite brief. The first identifiable
children’s poet was probably Watts, whose memorable jingles, Divine
Songs for Children, were popular from the early 18th c (1715 ) . Also, at
about this time, collections or nursery rhymes began to appear,
highghiting Ann and Jane Taylor, whose first book, Original Poems for
infant Minds ( Twinklem twinkle little star included ) was very successful .
And Literature is suitable for our pupils because they are familiarized with
fairy tales, songs, rhymes, riddles…(mainly in their first language)
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Foreign learners, to internalize the grammar and work out the meaning of
words from their context, must have sufficient authentic and
understandable material to work from ( Krasen – comprehensible input ).
Reading most suitable texts for our pupils. For this, we must bear in mind
aspects such as the students’ needs and abilities, that is to say their
interest, age, level, rhythm of learning and their previous expectations
about the FL class; the linguistic and stylistic level of the text, that is
vocabulary, about what we must try the language to be clear, graded and
with repetitions and the text must allow the pupils to make predictions (
about what comes next ) using their background and expectations
Certain our attention on the most popular works and authors we will
destinguish some periods. As well have said, in the 17th century literature
was written for adults (although read by children as well ) being so known
works like Robison Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe and Gulliver’s Travels, by
Johnattan Swift. In the 18th century began to appear some works written
for choldren, such as The History of Sandford and Marter by Thomas Day,
or series or short and attractive books called Gigantic Histories by Thomas
Boreman, apart from rhymes and fairy tales. But it was the 19th century
when Children ‘s Literature appeared as a genre. Until then , it didnt’s seen
necessary to create a literature specially for children, and it wasn’t
economically advisable. But, with mass education appearance a large
market was created , permitting the possibility of distributing books for
children.
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children.
In this period, we can highlight famous authors like Brothers Grimm, who
wrote German Popular Stories or H.Candersen, who wrote Rairy Tales and
Stories. About adventures books for boys the first one, Steverson. The most
famous writers or children’s stories were Lewis Carroll, who wrote Alice’s
Adventures in wonderland and It was the Best Butter and Beatrix Potter,
who wrote The Tales of Petter Rabbit and Tailor of Gloucester. Also , we
must mention Oscar Wilde who, althoug h Irish wrote in English his best
works are some like the Happy Prince and the Canterville Ghost. And
within non English literature there are famous writers such as Louisa M Al
cott and her Little Women , Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures or
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Heidi , by Johanna Spry or Anne of Green
Gables by L.M.Montgomery. Finally, in the 2=th century we find different
sorts of works. We can mention fairy tales that have become classic such
as Peter Pan by J.>M Barries, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling , The Lord
of the Rings, by J.R Tolkien. In this period many others authors have
become popular. That’s the case of the previously named C.S. Lewis , who
apart from his sciencies-fiction novels wrote the Narnia series; Raymond
Breggs who wrote Jim and Beantalk , Rather Christmas , and The
Snowman; Roald Dahl, who dealt with many interesting topics, specially
for children in books like James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the
chocolate Factory and many others.
And different prize awards have been created, such as the Newbery
Medal.
Comics appeared at the end of the 19th century., like for example “Ally
Sloper´s Half Holiday”.
B) GENRES
There exist many types ( genres ) of literature for children. We will describe
some of them.
Probably, one of the most relevant is tales. They provide the possibility of
repeating words and structures, helping children reinforce aspects of the
language and concepts. They give clues helping them to predict about
the content of the text. Tales use argumentative techniques and language
suitable for children. They normally transmit moral values and approach
the pupils to the culture of the language speaking community.
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recorded in the Exeter book in the 18th century. Short or with many lines of
verse, we find collections of riddles in many differents languages. Together
to nursery rhymes, riddles are short and they have stressed intonation,
what make them be useful to be used in the foreign language class.
When selecting a work of literature we must bear in mind that we want our
pupils to engage interactively with the text, the classmates, and with us,
the teachers. To reach this we must follow these guidelines:
1. The text itself, and not the information about it , is of central importance.
2. Our pupils must genuinely interact with the text, their classmates and
the teacher and not be mere recipients
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4. Our activities must be varied and interesting. Duff and Maley give a list
of general procedures that we can use in our classrooms:
– reconstruction
– reduction
– expansion
– replacement
– matching
– media transfer
– selection
– ranking
– comparison
– analyzing
2.TEXT TYPOLOGIES
Our pupils aren´t able to handle authentic texts, so they must begin
manipulating and practising with simulated authentic ones, developing
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-Narrative features
-Content
-layout
1. rhyming words
2. repeating structures
4. interactive
5. humorous
1. everyday life
2. animal stories
3. traditional/folk/fairy tales
4. fantasy
1. flab
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1. flab
2. cut-away pages
3. minimal text
4. no text
5. speech bubles
1. Content/subject matter:
· interesting
· amusing
· memorable
· relevant
2. Visual:
· use of illustrations
· size
· target language
· attractive/colourful
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· attractive/colourful
3. Encourage participation
· repetition
· develop memory
· prediction
· build confidence
4. Motivating
5. Arouse curiosity
· target language
· language training
· target culture
Also it is interesting teachers adapt tales for different purpose, giving way
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Also it is interesting teachers adapt tales for different purpose, giving way
to many possibilities of explotation.
But when adapting a story we can´t simplified too much because our
pupils could lose the flavour of real stories, so Ellis and Brewster give a
guidelines to follow:
Aspects to consider
5. Check idioms
6. Check clarity
* Grammar
1. Check tenses
* Organization of ideas
* Story length
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5. CONCLUSION
As we have seen, books and stories have existed for centuries. The most
characteristic aspect of them is their special way of enjoyment; also we
can learn different sorts of concepts and knowledge though reading
books. So literature is a useful resource to learn a foreign language, to
acquire it without paying conscious attention to the learning other the
language.
6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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