Playing with words and pictures: using post-modernist picture books as a resource with teenage and adult language learners
Book chapter
Lazar, G. 2015. Playing with words and pictures: using post-modernist picture books as a resource with teenage and adult language learners. in: Teranishi, M., Saito, Y. and Wales, K. (ed.) Literature and language learning in the EFL classroom Basingstoke and New York Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 94-111
Chapter title | Playing with words and pictures: using post-modernist picture books as a resource with teenage and adult language learners |
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Authors | Lazar, G. |
Abstract | Post-modernist picturebooks in English have been characterised as children’s books with pictures that subvert literary conventions, manifest complex intertextuality, and communicate multiple meanings leading to open-ended interpretations. Such picture books, including those by Anthony Browne, Shaun Tan and Mimi Grey, while apparently targeted at children, provide a rich resource for developing language and cultural awareness, interpretive strategies and creativity in both teenage and adult learners of English at high school and at university. This chapter begins with a discussion of key features of post-modernist picture books relevant to language learning, with examples given from specific texts. A range of practical activities for exploiting these books in the classroom, as well as with teachers of English in training, is then presented. |
Page range | 94-111 |
Book title | Literature and language learning in the EFL classroom |
Editors | Teranishi, M., Saito, Y. and Wales, K. |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publication | Basingstoke and New York |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781137443656 |
Publication dates | |
Aug 2015 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Jun 2015 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Literature-and-Language-Learning-in-the-EFL-Classroom/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137443656 |
Language | English |
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