ESSAY 16: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH. DIDACTIC TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE ORAL COMPREHENSION.

ESSAY 16: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ENGLISH. DIDACTIC TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE ORAL COMPREHENSION.

1. ABSTRACT

   • Use storybooks & storytelling
     • Provide Comprehensible Input
     • Go beyond child's current level

2. INTRODUCTION

   • Texts are a fundamental element of communication
   • Many varieties
     • Literary texts
   • Literary texts in the FL class to develop Com. Comp.
   • LOMCE & Royal Decree 126/2014
     • Key Comp. related with literacy work in class
   • Decree 198/2014
     • Include literature to foster cultural development

3. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

   • Definition
   • Full growth 20th Century
   • Emerged 18th Century
     • Industrial Revolution
     • Spread of mass education and literacy
     • Rise of the middle class
     • Improvements in printing
   • Not a uniform phenomenon
   • Types of literature
     • Adapted classics
       • Oscar Wilde 'The Csnterbury Ghost'
       • Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'
     • Appropriated adult books
       • Swift 'Gulliver's Travels'
       • Daniel Defoe 'Robison Crusoe'
     • Folk stories & fairy tales
       • Little Red Ridding Hood; Snowhite

4. USE OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN THE FL CLASS

   • Literature increases students' motivation towards reading habits
   • Benefits
     • Cultural
     • Aesthetic
       • Value the poetic function of language
     • Linguistic
       • Exposed to vocabulary & structures
       • Develop their written & oral skills,

5. TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE ORAL COMPREHENSION

   • Beginning-levels
     • Use of puppets
     • Repetitive language
     • Teacher exaggerates voice for global comprehension
     • Students sit in a circle
   • Higher levels
     • Start working writing skills
     • Focus on reading than on storytelling
     • Read adapted versions
       • Motivation increase
   • End of 1st period and beginning of the 2nd
     • Amount of vocabulary increases
     • Repetitive but more specific
     • Use of flashcards instead of realia
     • Students sit on their seats
   • Techniques to achieve written comprehension
     • Young students
       • Asking questions regarding the plot or characters
         • Make deductions
     • Older students
       • Skimming & Scanning
         • Give opinions, written or culture-related activities

6. CONCLUSION

   • Literacy allow us to convey social elements for children's devekopment
   • Importance of prompting students' interest in reading
   • Acquisition linguistic and strategic competence; Cultural & Artistic Expressions Competence
     • Develop Comm. Comp.