COD 2011 - S386

Reading, visuals and film to motivate 14-16 year olds

Middle and secondary school teachers of Language and Literature.

1 sessions, start: 30-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 30 June 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
Middle and secondary school teachers of Language and Literature.
To get participants to:
- Become familiar with the work of Shaun Tan and Michelle Paver.
- Discuss their relevance to a teenage audience in Argentina today.
- Approach the themes presented exploiting the mixed media used (text, pictures, animation, film).
- Propose ways to encourage learners to produce their own critical response to the texts.
- The interface between reading and visual media.
- Shaun Tan's The Arrival and The Lost Thing.
- Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and Dark Matter.
The facilitator will encourage participants to discuss the potential of extracts from the works mentioned in the contents (text, visuals, animation), reflect on how to use them in the classroom and suggest concrete tasks based on them.
- Tan, Shaun:
http://www.shauntan.net/

- The Arrival (2006). New York: Arthur A. Levine Books
- The Lost Thing (1999) New York: Arthur A. Levine Books and award-winning animated short film

- Paver, Michelle:
http://www.michellepaver.com/

- Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. London: Orion Children’s Books:
Wolf Brother - Spirit Walker - Soul Eater - Outcast - Oath Breaker- Ghost Hunter
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