A Multimodal Exploration of Non-Fiction Read-Aloud Performances in English as an Additional Language

Elisa Bertoldi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
9781036457518 (ISBN)

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This book explores how children and adults co-construct meaning during non-fiction picturebook read-aloud performances in English as an Additional Language context. At a time when non-fiction picturebooks are receiving growing attention for their potential to communicate knowledge in creative and engaging ways, this volume takes a closer look at how these books can be mediated for children's language education.The book draws on the TALES (Telling and Listening to Eco-sustainable Stories) initiative organized by the Teacher education Department of the University of Udine (Italy) in collaboration with the local Natural History Museum. Focusing on mediation as a dynamic, multimodal process, the book examines how storytellers use spoken language, gesture, gaze, voice, facial expressions and props to scaffold children's comprehension and invite active participation. While the findings are context-specific, they may inform educators, researchers, and teacher educators interested in multimodal mediation for communicating knowledge and information through non-fiction picturebooks in contexts where English as an additional language is used.

Elisa Bertoldi (PhD) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua (Italy). She is also a teacher educator for pre-service and in-service courses at the University of Udine (Italy) and a teacher of English as a foreign language in Italian primary schools. She co-authored the book Let's Tell a Tale. Storytelling with Children in English L2 (2019). Her recent research work and publications deal with multimodal interactions in picturebook mediation for English language education.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.10.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-13	9781036457518 / 9781036457518
Zustand	Neuware