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Training Future Primary Teachers to Use Picture Storybooks and Promote Love for Reading

Authors

VOJTKOVÁ Naděžda

Year of publication 2010
Type Appeared in Conference without Proceedings
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Description Childrens picture storybooks are a powerful tool for developing the foreign language competence with young learners. However they have not been used widely in my context. That is why I designed a methodology course in which the trainees created their own projects based on storybooks. I want to share my experience with the designing and developing the course. Originally the course was meant to be a methodology course using authentic picture books with young learners, however after a few runs I realised that it had a bigger potential. I had to consider the specific needs of the future primary teachers and the constraints on some elements of the course. That is why I have adapted it so that it could help to develop the trainees command of English as well as their reader s and teacher s competences. I will investigate the changes I have made in updating the course and state the rationale behind them. As a result of the course a group of trainees joined a project in which they set up reading programmes for their schools and carried out a research of the impact of the reading on the pupils motivation and language competence.

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