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Teaching Literature
This presents a challenge across the curriculum
Immigrant children often experience what is referred to as “culture shock”
They try to make sense of a strange new culture, while holding on to their own cultural identity
Trying to „fit‟ in
Trying to hold on to their culture
Struggling to learn a new language
Struggling to master subject area content
Is possibly the biggest challenge for ESL students
1. the obvious: vocabulary and grammar
2. imagery
3. idiomatic expressions
4. slang
5. regional dialects
6. social dialects
Every text, whether fictional or non-fictional, Is bound to the
culture that created it.
Look less threatening because of pictures Make reading literature less intimidating,
less formal Help students understand the plot by
illustrating the main events and the characters‟ feelings
Help students learn new vocabulary by associating words with visual representations
Graphic novels are very popular with all student
populations, but are possibly most helpful to ESL
students
Graphic novels are available not only as the stories of
Superman, Spiderman, Batman, and all sorts of other very popular heroes, but also
as classical literature.
Ask your librarian about graphic
novels!
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