Training Future Primary Teachers to Use Picture Storybooks and Promote Love for Reading
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Childrens picture storybooks are a powerful tool for developing the foreign language competence with young learners. However they have not been used widely in my context. That is why I designed a methodology course in which the trainees created their own projects based on storybooks. I want to share my experience with the designing and developing the course. Originally the course was meant to be a methodology course using authentic picture books with young learners, however after a few runs I realised that it had a bigger potential. I had to consider the specific needs of the future primary teachers and the constraints on some elements of the course. That is why I have adapted it so that it could help to develop the trainees command of English as well as their reader s and teacher s competences. I will investigate the changes I have made in updating the course and state the rationale behind them. As a result of the course a group of trainees joined a project in which they set up reading programmes for their schools and carried out a research of the impact of the reading on the pupils motivation and language competence. |