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T1 Promoting reading and writing among ESL/EFL students: a proposal with Choose Your Own Adventure stories
A1 Miguel Bueno, Irene
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Gamebooks
K1 Librojuegos
K1 Hábito de lectura y escritura
K1 Reading and writing habit
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB Gamebooks date back from the 1940s when the South American writer J. L. Borges published a short story, which was divided into three parts and had nine endings. However, it was R. A. Montgomery who turned this kind of stories popular under the brand Choose Your Own Adventure. These books, narrated in the second person, involve the reader in the development of the story by letting him or her decide among a set of options what to do next at the end of some chapters. This proposal examines the use of CYOA stories as a tool to both engage the ESL/EFL students in the reading habit and to promote their creativity and writing skills. This project is meant to avoid the use of an exam as a means to assess reading. Instead, the text is properly exploited in order to make the most of the reading experience. In the case of written expression, this proposal fosters the students’ creativity through the production of a collaborative CYOA story in the ESL/EFL classroom. In addition, this paper defends the use of authentic materials in the L2 classroom in order to provide a more realistic approach to language learning.
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39583
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39583
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 04-dic-2024