Selecting Picture Books for EL Beginners in Panama: Tellability

Autor/inn/en	Lado, Ana; Hauth, Clara
Titel	Selecting Picture Books for EL Beginners in Panama: Tellability
Quelle	In: Reading Teacher, 75 (2022) 6, S.767-775 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lado, Ana) ORCID (Hauth, Clara)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0034-0561
DOI	10.1002/trtr.2088
Schlagwörter	Reading Material Selection; Picture Books; Second Language Learning; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Difficulty Level; Second Language Instruction; Science Education; Oral Language; Written Language; Teaching Methods; Story Telling; Panama + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Picture book; Bilderbuch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Geschriebene Sprache; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Teachers spend a lot of time finding 'just right' picture books for their students. However, much of what is known about a book's difficulty level was developed with native English speakers. More needs to be developed with the distinctive characteristics of English Learners (ELs). This study reports on the selection of picture books to teach in an intensive week-long intervention with Spanish-speaking ELs in a low SES community in Panama. It applies the concept of tellability rather than readability. Tellability considers who is speaking about what to whom and in what circumstances. Novice teachers who were not fluent in Spanish learned to successfully select and instruct using carefully selected books for teaching English in science-themed lessons. These teachers considered features of books that matched the ELs' oral and written English abilities as well as matched specific language teaching strategies for EL beginners. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01