Authors
Tso, Anna Wing-boAffiliation
Open University of Hong KongIssue Date
2016-06Subjects
Shakespearelifelong learning
lifewide learning
reading club activities
multimedia pedagogy
English as a Second Language
Hong Kong
Q330 English as a second language
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Teaching Shakespeare to young ESL learners can be one of the most challenging tasks for English teachers and parents. Because of the difficult vocabulary and unusual language, Shakespeare is often left unread and unexplored both in school and at home. With a view to helping children overcome reading obstacles and learn to appreciate Shakespeare and his plays, the Hong Kong Public Libraries and I co-hosted a weekly Shakespeare teens’ reading club for K12 learners from local grammar schools. Four Shakespearean plays were introduced to about twenty Cantonese child participants who had no or little experience reading or studying Shakespeare’s works. To enhance imagination and interactions among child readers, various learner-centred, interactive, and multimedia pedagogical activities such as the reader’s theatre, movie screenings, creative writing tasks, comics reading and drawing, etc. were used in the reading club. In this paper, I will share teaching ideas and reading activities that make Shakespeare understandable and enjoyable for ESL young readers.Citation
Tso, A.W-b. (2016) 'Teaching Shakespeare to Young ESL Learners in Hong Kong'. Journal of pedagogic development 6 (2) 18-24Publisher
University of BedfordshireJournal
Journal of pedagogic developmentAdditional Links
https://journals.beds.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/jpd/article/view/316/497Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
2047-3265Collections
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