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Introducing critical literacy to pre-service English teachers through fairy tales
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Novianti, N, Introducing critical literacy to pre-service English teachers through fairy tales, Journal of Literary Education, 4 pp. 131-150. ISSN 2659-3149 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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Official URL: https://ojs.uv.es/index.php/JLE/article/view/21026
Abstract
The need for a more critical approach to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and learning is
undeniable, yet little has been done to prepare teachers for teaching with this approach. This article reports
one of the cycles on my action research study, involving a teacher educator and 35 pre-service English
teachers. Together with the teacher educator, a unit on critical literacy was developed using fairy tales as
the core text. In the unit, we introduced pre-service teachers to critical literacy through the critical reading,
analysis, and rewriting of fairy tales for social transformation. They were assigned to rewrite a fairy tale as
a form of social action and to reflect on the choices made in the rewriting process. The re-written fairy tales
and the accompanying reflection essay were analysed using a rubric adapted from the four dimensions of
critical literacy (Lewison et al., 2002). The re-written fairy tales and the reflections suggest the pre-service
teachers’ growing understanding of the non-neutrality of text, ability to read from a different perspective
and offer an alternative one, and ability to identify socio-political issues, such as stereotypes, and to subvert
them.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | critical literacy, EFL, fairy tales, pre-service English teachers |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Curriculum and pedagogy |
Research Field: | English and literacy curriculum and pedagogy (excl. LOTE, ESL and TESOL) |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | Languages and linguistics |
UTAS Author: | Novianti, N (Ms Nita Novianti) |
ID Code: | 145724 |
Year Published: | 2021 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2021-08-04 |
Last Modified: | 2021-11-15 |
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