Cultural Imaginaries and Oral Traditions as Creative Resources for Connecting Home Storytelling to English Learning

Autor/inn/en	Samuelson, Beth Lewis; Park, G Yeon; Munyaneza, Simon Pierre
Titel	Cultural Imaginaries and Oral Traditions as Creative Resources for Connecting Home Storytelling to English Learning
Quelle	In: TESOL Journal, 9 (2018) 4, (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1056-7941
DOI	10.1002/tesj.425
Schlagwörter	Oral Tradition; Story Telling; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Creative Teaching; Teaching Methods; Literacy Education; Theater Arts; Elementary School Students; African Languages; Cultural Background; Foreign Countries; African Culture; Rwanda; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Oral history; Mündliche Überlieferung; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Theaterwissenschaft; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Ausland; Culture; Kultur; Ruanda; USA
Abstract	When teachers and learners of English face challenging circumstances such as limited access to books and teaching supplies, local practices such as oral storytelling traditions can provide creative resources for supporting language and literacy development. We describe how a cultural imaginary of stories told by Rwandan and U.S. students supported dramatic retelling through reader's theater in English camps for Rwandan upper elementary school students. The students embodied and dramatized their favorite stories written in English or Kinyarwanda and redesigned them into reader's theater scripts. Often these stories originated from creative storytelling practices by the students in their homes, thus illustrating how storytelling traditions connected funds of knowledge from home to resources for teaching and learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01