Empowering language learners through children's literature
This paper argues how from a meta-cognitive perspective, children's literature is able to empower English language learners in two areas: improving their literacy skills as well as increasing their awareness of the collective need to preserve the environment. Using eco-criticism as its theoreti...
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CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND PRE-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/1/Empowering_Language_Learners_Through_Children%27s_Literature.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/4/Binder1.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper argues how from a meta-cognitive perspective, children's literature is able to empower English language learners in two areas: improving their literacy skills as well as increasing their awareness of the collective need to preserve the environment. Using eco-criticism as its theoretical framework, this research employs a meta-cognitive, close-reading analysis of K. S. Maniam's "Top Winner" and Iain Buchanan's "Fatimah's Kampung". The texts are found to employ nature and specific narrative styles in engaging and encouraging readers to read productively, and at the same time, critically assess their abilities to positively affect the environment in the 21st century. |
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