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Children´s picture story books
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 picture story books. I want to share my
experience with the designing and developing the course. Originally
the course was meant to be a methodology course on 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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