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The Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... for the Degree ofDoctor of Philosophy at the University of WaikatoJUI-FANG YU CHANGUniversity' of W aikato-1-AbstractTeachers of young learners of English in Taiwan are often encouraged to use children’s literature 111 then teaching. My overall aims 111 this research project were to find our:•whethe The role of childrens literature... r theie is any agreement about the meaning of the term ‘children's literature’, particularly among those who recommend its use 111 the teaching of EngThe role of childrens literature...
lish to young learners in Taiwan;•what types of teaching materials and resources teachers of English to young learners in Taiwan claim to use and to vThe Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... ar children's literature commonly used by teachers of young learners ill Taiwan rate when considered in relation to a range of criteria derived from a critical review of writing on children's literature and. Ill particular, ‘good’ children s literature.There is considerable disagreement about what c The role of childrens literature... onstitutes children's literature and. in particular, ‘good’ children’s literature. Furthermore. although many writers claim that children’s literatureThe role of childrens literature...
, particularly narrative, can contribute to children's social, cognitive and linguistic development, very little appears to have been written about thThe Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... ost 58% of respondents to a questionnaire for teachers of young learners in Taiwan (256 returns) indicated that they used story' books in their classes at least once a week, 15% indicated that they never used story books (Chapter 3). Furthermore. in 23 observed lessons taught in primary schools in T The role of childrens literature... aiwan, children's literature featured only once. On that occasion, the book selected was used as supplementary' material. It was not thematically or-iThe role of childrens literature...
i-linguistically linked to the main part of the lesson and each sentence was translated individually into Mandarin. Although even' one of 10 observed The Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... erstand little, if anything, of the content (Chapter 4).A sample of texts that appear in English textbooks commonly used in Taiwan was analyzed and found to be largely made up of artificial dialogue snippets that had no genuine communicative purpose or imaginative interest (Chapter 5). A sample of g The role of childrens literature... raded readers commonly used in Taiwanese primary schools (designed primarily for speakers of English as a first language) was found to be culturally aThe role of childrens literature...
nd linguistically inappropriate, the language being stilted and often, from the perspective of young learners in Asia, extremely complex, and the contThe Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... ems relating to the level and complexity of the language (Chapter 7).My overall conclusion (Chapter S') is that the use of literature that is designed primarily for fust language speakers of English in teaching English to young learners in Taiwan may have little positive impact on learning, particul The role of childrens literature... arly in the hands of inexperienced and poorly trained teachers. Nevertheless, there is much that those who design materials for use in language teachiThe role of childrens literature...
ng. Ill Taiwan and elsewhere, can learn from children's literature.-111-AcknowledgementsI am extremely grateful for the advice, assistance and supportThe Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... Crombie, who has provided me with constant encouragement and with invaluable guidance and support throughout my time as a doctoral student. Her woik as a supervisor and an applied linguist has inspired me immensely. I also wish to thank Dr Diane Johnson for her graduate classes, always a source of The role of childrens literature... genuine pleasure and inspit at ion. and for her helpful and insightful comments and suggestions, and Dr Jan Pildich for introducing me to children’s lThe role of childrens literature...
iterature resourcesI would also like to thank the teachers who took time out of then busy schedules to complete questionnaires and those who allowed mThe Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... this research project would have been impossible.Thanks are also due to those staff members of Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages in Taiwan who made It possible for me to take time out to complete a PhD and to the many staff members of the University of Waikato in New Zealand who supported me in The role of childrens literature... so many ways during my studies.Finally, my special thanks and gratitude go to my family for their unconditional support and love throughout the yearsThe role of childrens literature...
of my study. My involvement in this research project meant that my children had to move to a new country and leant to use English as the language of sThe Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements f The role of childrens literature... ble to express 111 words what this has meant to me.-iv-ContentsAbstract iAcknowledgements iiiContents ivList of Tables XList of Figures xiList of Abbreviations XVChapter 11Introduction: research questions and research methods 1 The role of childrens literature... The Role of Children's Literature in the Teaching of English to Young Learners in TaiwanA thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements fGọi ngay
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