Judging a Book by Its Cover: Developing Intercultural Competence through Book Covers

Autor/in	Perugini, Dorie Conlon
Titel	Judging a Book by Its Cover: Developing Intercultural Competence through Book Covers
Quelle	In: Learning Languages, 20 (2015) 2, S.19-20 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1083-5415
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Spanish; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Units of Study; Interdisciplinary Approach; Language Teachers; Art Products; Teaching Methods; Cultural Awareness; Elementary School Teachers; Food; Holidays; Cultural Background; Grade 3; Childrens Literature; Librarians; Elementary School Students + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Spanisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Lerneinheit; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Künstlerische Produktion; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lebensmittel; Holiday; Feiertag; Ferien; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Librarian; Bibliothekar; Bibliothekarin
Abstract	In this brief article, elementary Spanish teacher, Dorie Perugini describes a classroom project that not only enabled students to explore their own culture and cultures around the world, but motivated them to create a beautiful piece of art. Like most elementary language teachers, Perugini needed to teach her class about food. While planning her lesson, she contemplated how she could evoke the strong memories of favorite recipes and foods traditionally eaten at holidays in and if it was possible to get across the importance of food in cultural identity to her third grade students during a standard fruit unit. Using one of her favorite third grade stories, "La sorpresa de Nandi" by Eileen Brown she engaged her class in her a novice level Spanish discussion about the book's cover, giving her students great motivation to listen to the story. To help her students gain skills of Intercultural Competence after reading the story, Perugini based her future lesson plans on an essential question: How would the story change if it was set in a different country? Following this discussion, Perugini partnered with a classroom teacher to create an interdisciplinary lesson in English. With the aid of the classroom teacher and the school's library media specialist, the students came up with a number of questions to further explore and research how the story would change if it were set in a different country. When they had finished gathering their information, the students used materials from the art room to create poster-sized covers for their new stories. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Network for Early Language Learning. Winston-Salem, NC. e-mail: nnell@wfu.edu; Web site: http://www.nnell.org/publications/journal.shtml
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01