Understanding the role of stories, fairy tales and literature for children. A survey of literature for children in English-speaking countries. Resources for telling stories to young children in the English classroom.
1. (1) The psychological and anthropological background of literature for children; (2) the development of literature for children in English-speaking counties; (3) distinctive features of stories, fairy tales and literature for children; (4) narrative skills for storytelling in the classroom; (5) available resources for ELT teachers.
Mètodes docents: Lectures in English; audition, reading, viewing and telling of stories; performances; open debates; analysis of audiovisual material and authentic material; research assignments. Tipus d'exàmens: (1) Participation in class; (2) daily research assignments; (3) two exams; (4) the telling of a single story in class; (5) a final course paper exploiting the previous story, and commenting on the concepts and resources analysed in class.
www.surlalunefairytales.com Anotated versions of tales, commentary, comparisons, bibliography. www.bibliophilebooks.com Great shopping web with plenty of bargains: from Wordsworth Classics to Raymond Briggs’s The Snowman. http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storfolk.html A list of relevant folklore and fairytale sites from around the world. http://www.2learn.ca/currlinks/2teach/netsteps/tales.html A good list of general sites to get started. http://www.plainfield.k12.in.us/hschool/webq/webq19/tales.htm A lesson plan which combines geography, cultural studies and literature. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html An excellent resource containing links to sites on myths from all cultures. Scholarly. http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/Andersen/ A comprehensive site on the work of Hans Christian Andersen. http://members.xoom.com/darsie/tales/index.html Another good collection of tales from around the world. http://ils.unc.edu/~prier/KidLit/#journals A pathfinder in the History of Children's Literature by Ellen Decker and Ruffin Priest. Complete and updated.