The Reading Experience for Children and Young Adults

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-173
Author(s):  
Esther de la Peña
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
First Year ◽  
Pedagogical Model ◽  
Children And Young Adults

The main purpose of this chapter is to expose a model of TEFL based on the use of literature as an interdisciplinary tool. Reading authentic literary texts embraces the exploration of the linguistic aspects of the English language and integrates a multifaceted study of the historical context, cultural manifestations, and philosophical features of the literary works. Firstly, a brief overview about the role of literature in language teaching over the past years is presented. Secondly, the advantages and benefits that literature offers students are explained in detail. Finally, a model approach to integrating literature in the EFL classroom is suggested. In all, the scope of this comprehensive pedagogical model provides students with a challenging learning experience that starts in the first year of ESO and is carried out throughout the four years of compulsory education.

Role of plasma homocysteine levels and MTHFR polymorphisms on IQ scores in children and young adults with epilepsy treated with antiepileptic drugs

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 548-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Di Rosa ◽  
Patrizia Lenzo ◽  
Eleonora Parisi ◽  
Milena Neri ◽  
Silvia Guerrera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Antiepileptic Drugs ◽  
Plasma Homocysteine ◽  
Mthfr Polymorphisms ◽  
Children And Young Adults ◽  
Iq Scores

Children and Youth Librarians

2016 ◽  
pp. 25-50
Author(s):  
Sylvia Vincent Stavridi ◽  
Dalia Ragaa Hamada
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Children And Young Adults

In a high-tech environment where knowledge and information are delivered in a fast paced mode, the role of librarians serving children and young adults is being re-directed from being solely responsible for information and knowledge transfer to teaching and research. The children and young adult libraries at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina have been trying to extend their ways to deliver the services and understand the challenges in integrating various technologies. The chapter locates a series of technology competencies and skills that are currently expected of librarians working with children and young adults. In addition to their non-technical skills, librarians have to be technologically empowered and learn a variety of technical behaviors and acquire the digital skills needed to embrace the constantly changing complexities and advances in digital technology. This chapter upgrades the digital literacy skills in discipline-specific knowledge to support the integration of digital proficiencies as relevant skills for librarians to serve in their new role as teacher librarian.

Tom Stoppard, New Historicism, and Estrangement in Travesties

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zekiye Er
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Incomplete Knowledge ◽  
Tom Stoppard ◽  
The Past ◽  
Linear Approach ◽  
Language And Literature

New historicism rewrites history from different viewpoints in order to prove that the past is inaccessible, and all historians can do is to work on incomplete knowledge, aware of the fact that a teleological, linear approach to their subject is misleading. In this study, Zekiye Er aims not only to analyze Tom Stoppard's Travesties from a new historicist stance, but also to utilize a new historicist approach to an understanding of what Stoppard is doing in the play, in the light of the striking parallels between Stoppard's technique and the new historicist critics' methods of analyzing history and literary texts. She concludes that Stoppard himself plays the role of a new historicist while writing a brilliant comedy of ideas. Zekiye Er received her PhD for a dissertation on Stoppardian drama from Ankara University in 2004. She has been working as a lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature of Gaziantep University since 1993.

Type I diabetes among children and young adults: the role of country of birth, socioeconomic position and sex

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hozan Ismael Hussen ◽  
Dong Yang ◽  
Sven Cnattingius ◽  
Tahereh Moradi
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Socioeconomic Position ◽  
Type I Diabetes ◽  
Type I ◽  
Country Of Birth ◽  
Children And Young Adults

scholarly journals Literary Texts in the EFL Classrooms: Applications, Benefits and Approaches

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Shamsur Rabb Khan ◽  
Ali Mohammad Alasmari
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
English Language ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Efl Classrooms

Literary texts play an important role in learning English language, especially enhancing communication competence, raising cultural awareness, and generating motivation among students. Research studies have shown the potential advantages of using literary texts in the EFL classrooms, which promote authentic materials, help increase language skills, and extends linguistic knowledge. This paper documents comprehensive literature on the application and benefits of literary texts in learning and teaching English language to EFL learners. It explains how different language skills can be learnt successfully using literary texts. This paper shows the significance of literary texts in English language teaching program. It explores the historical background, covering various phases, studies from various countries, including the Arab world where literature teaching shows positive responses. The paper is distinct in its entirety since it explains how different literary texts can help enhance language skills and describes the different teaching approaches for teaching literature which will be a healthy guide for teachers. It also shows how literature enriches the EFL learners’ overall learning experience.

Teachers' Professional Development in the Digitized World

2016 ◽  
pp. 145-154
Author(s):  
Emsal Ates Ozdemir ◽  
Kenan Dikilitaş
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
English Language Teachers ◽  
Teachers Professional Development

Professional development for in-service English language teachers has increasingly become a need in higher education not only in Turkey but across the world. Due to the limited time teachers have and the distance between the source of service and the potential participants, using digitized activities and materials have naturally become a necessity. The purpose of this research is to report the potential impact of the course described below and discuss the role of blended learning experience of professional development on the participating teachers. The theoretical background of the study is experiential learning initiated by Kolb and socio-constructivist learning theory by Vygotsky in that both theories highlight the role of experiencing the change and focus on personal meanings and learning with and from others in real and online environments.

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