a feeling for language (cuhk, 2012)
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A Feeling for Language
5 September 2012Adys Wong
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My MPhil thesis and interest
A Little Book Project
The use of literary texts
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Contents
Why does ‘feeling’ matter in language learning?
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Why does ‘feeling’ matter?
Professor LUNG Ying – tai and her
son, Andrew
When asked about
Andrew’s school life in
Hong Kong, he told us…
What kind of English language learners we want our students to be?
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Referential 指稱 Poetic / Aesthetic 美學 Emotive 情感 ---------> Conative 意動 Phatic 交流 Metalinguistic 元語言
Roman Jakobson (1960): six different functions of language
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The Role of Identity in English Creative Writing
My MPhil Thesis
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Teacher – Student Interactions
MaximumIdentityInvestment
Schecter & Cummins (2003): The reciprocal relationship between identity investment and cognitive engagement
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1877)
Happy families are all alike;
every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The Study of Aesthetics
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Philosophical dialogues:
How Can We Be Moved by the Fate of Anna Karenina?
- Colin Radford & Michael Weston (1975)
Weeping for Anna Karenina
-Umberto Eco’s Confessions of a Young Novelist (2011)
The power of fictional characters that invades our emotional lives
The Study of Aesthetics
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…language learning through the use of
representational materials can and should go
hand in hand with the learning of referential uses of
language… McRae (1991)
To enable our students to use English to respond
and give expression to real and imaginative
experience… (the Experience Strand)
Why do we use literary texts?
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A ‘Standard’ Reading Lesson
Why do we use literary texts?
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I’m silent, but I speak to you.
I can do things no one else can.
If you join me, I will tell you more than anyone else.
Who am I?
The Little Book Project
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is borrowed from a Finnish primary school’s practice in teaching young learners’ literacy;
a whole-year programme, encouraging students to read, write and create;
students have to design the book cover and illustrations with the use of IT
The Little Book Project
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Timeline
The Little Book Project
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Sept Jan Apr Jun
Introduction:Read around books
The Art of Story writing
Short Story Analysis:Gifts of Love
Characters
Themes and
lessons
Settings
PlotOpening
Complication Crisis
Ending
Pinocchio
The story map
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Understanding the story elements
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Different voices in literary texts…
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Analysing the narrator’s voiceAnalysing the narrator’s voice
Learning different ways to write dialoguesLearning different ways to write dialogues
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Writing the story…
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Writing the story…
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character profile
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Student Work
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Different voices for different characters
Volume – speaking more loudly or softly.
e.g. to highlight certain words or show feelings.
Pace – speaking more quickly or slowly.
e.g. to emphasise parts of the story or build
excitement.
Pauses – stopping briefly.
e.g. to show that something important or funny is going to be said.
The Art of Storytelling…
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Read the dialogues of the following pictures:
David Peatfield, Rebecca Cheung and Man Cheung (2007). Stepping into Drama. Dramatic English Language Arts series. Hong Kong: Dramatic English. P.10
The Art of Storytelling…
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(1) This is Just to Say…
Think of the words used in poetry carefully
The Use of Literary Texts
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I have eaten the plums *applesthat were in the icebox * fridge and which you were probably saving for breakfast *lunchForgive me * I’m sorrythey were delicious * tastyso sweet and so cold
This is Just to Say William Carlos Williams
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(2) A Rose by Any Other Name:
Letters to Juliet (2010)
The Use of Literary Texts
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Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet The balcony scene (Act 2, Scene 2): Romeo:
“If her eyes were in the night sky, they would shine so brightly through space that birds would start singing, thinking her light was the light of day.”
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Juliet’s House in
Verona, Italy
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Letters to Juliet (2010)
Two Letters:
Letter from Claire to
Juliet (Sophie) and
Sophie’s reply
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Claire’s Letter to Juliet:
I didn’t go to him, Juliet.
I didn’t go to Lorenzo…
Lorenzo is waiting for me, below our tree
waiting and wondering where I am.
Oh please Juliet, tell me what I should
do…
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Imagine you were Sophie and you received the letter from Claire while you were working at Juliet’s house. What would you do?
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If I received the letter from Claire, I would… ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sophie’s reply
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Other examples
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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