Empowering language learners through children's literature

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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Main Author: Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND PRE-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT 2014
Subjects:
PE English
PN0080 Criticism
PZ Childrens literature
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/1/Empowering_Language_Learners_Through_Children%27s_Literature.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/4/Binder1.pdf
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spelling iium-376362015-01-06T01:49:14Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/ Empowering language learners through children's literature Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral PE English PN0080 Criticism PZ Childrens 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 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. CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND PRE-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT 2014 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/1/Empowering_Language_Learners_Through_Children%27s_Literature.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/37636/4/Binder1.pdf Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral (2014) Empowering language learners through children's literature. In: 3rd International Languages Conference 2014 (ILC 2014), 22nd - 24th April 2011, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished) http://www.iium.edu.my/ilc/
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English
topic PE English
PN0080 Criticism
PZ Childrens literature
spellingShingle PE English
PN0080 Criticism
PZ Childrens literature
Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral
Empowering language learners through children's literature
description 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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral
author_facet Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral
author_sort Mohd Azrul, Mohd Ezamir Azral
title Empowering language learners through children's literature
title_short Empowering language learners through children's literature
title_full Empowering language learners through children's literature
title_fullStr Empowering language learners through children's literature
title_full_unstemmed Empowering language learners through children's literature
title_sort empowering language learners through children's literature
publisher CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES AND PRE-UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT
publishDate 2014
url 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
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