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The Use of Storybooks in Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Primary Level (2nd AND 3rd Grade) in Slovene Primary Schools : master thesis
Barbara Maher, 2022, master's thesis

Abstract: This Master’s Thesis deals with the topic of teaching English as a foreign language to young language learners with the use of storybooks/a story-based approach. It has been produced with the intent to encourage and persuade English teachers of young language learners (in Slovenia) to introduce this approach to their early foreign language lessons, by offering a detailed overview of the advantages a story-based approach brings to the context of foreign language instruction, and to serve as a handbook, guiding them through the recommendations for the selection of appropriate storybooks, the preparation for storytelling/storyreading and its implementation, with additional emphasis on the importance of choosing and incorporating suitable story-related activities to each stage of the storytelling/reading act. Moreover, concerns teachers might have when first starting to use this approach, such as whether or not the learner's first language should be used in the story-based lessons, and how many times the same story can be presented to the learners, have been touched on, as well. Furthermore, the Master’s Thesis provides a selection of ready-to-use story-based lesson plans, prepared around chosen storybooks, all made to fit the goals/aims of foreign language instruction at primary level in the 2nd and 3rd grade in Slovene primary schools.
Keywords: Storybooks, Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Young Learners (YL), Teaching English to Young Learners (TEYL), Story-Based Approach to Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners, Story-Based Lesson Plans
Published in DKUM: 03.08.2022; Views: 888; Downloads: 95
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Pedagogical Dimensions of Grimm's Fairy Tales
Petra Bokša, 2016, master's thesis

Abstract: In this Master’s thesis I considered the pedagogical dimensions of Grimm’s fairy tales. I wanted to know which of Grimm’s fairy tales are used in schools from English speaking countries, and which in schools from Slovenia. I also wanted to establish what kinds of activities are planned when working with fairy tales, and in which grades they are used. Before I started my research, I wrote the theoretical part of the thesis. I began by writing something about the authors of the fairy tales, the Brothers Grimm, and something about the fairy tales themselves. I continued by focusing on Grimm’s fairy tales and how they were modernised, and exploring about the didactic purposes of the fairy tales. For the research part of my thesis, I gathered 40 lesson plans, 20 from English speaking countries and 20 from Slovenia. I compared and analysed each lesson plan according to which fairy tale it included, how long it was, what kinds of activities were planned, and for which level of knowledge or grade it was written. I came to the conclusion that lesson plans that come from English speaking countries are better that those which actually originate from Slovenian schools. Moreover, Slovenian schools do not use the variety of fairy tales that is used in English speaking countries. However, I did come to see that both use fairy tales in all grades of Elementary school, not just for younger learners. Finally, we constructed our own lesson plan with the use of Grimm's fairy tale "Tom Thumb".
Keywords: Brothers Grimm, Grimm’s fairy tales, lesson plans, English Elementary schools, Slovenian Elementary schools
Published in DKUM: 28.09.2016; Views: 1791; Downloads: 125
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