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Two boys in two different parts of
the world: they have chores to do for their parents, they play soccer,
they enjoy riding the bike. There is hardky any difference in the lives
they live – at least according to the images the text creates.
Yet, the illustrations will quickly put the reader into the picture
and tell a different story...Nigel Gray and Phillipe Dupasquier’s
book A Country Far Away is an appealing presentation of real and fictitious
worlds in combination with an unusual design and powerful artwork.
It is often argued that the use of picture books can foster the development of children’s imagination (cf. Rösch 1997, Ewing et al., 2008). In this presentation the notion of imagination and creativity will be addressed as well as the concept of stereotyping. However, the teaching ideas presented build on these premises by focusing on a secondary EFL teaching context - not an elementary classroom. The unit ties in with the German (Hesse) 5th grade curriculum and is embedded in a drama in education approach with a focus on intercultural learning. |
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Dr.
Almut Küppers is a trained secondary teacher for EFL, GFL, Politics
and Drama in Education. She has worked in several schools in Germany,
England and the US as a teacher and teacher trainer. She currently works
at Goethe-University Frankfurt as Akademische Rätin (Reader) in
the field of EFL teaching methodology and S/FLA acquisition.
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