Children's Literature - OPBA2A133B

• Title: Dětská literatura
• Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2017 to 2020
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / 20 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Petr Chalupský, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Eva Skopečková, Ph.D.

Annotation

English

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (09.09.2022)

This course mainly intends to lead the students towards reading books for children and young adults and employing in ESL classes. While trying to answer the question concerning the origins and qualities typical of literary works classified as English-written children’s literature, the course introduces history and individual genres of children’s literature written in English through a number of various activities, games and plays.

Czech

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (09.09.2022)

Kurz se v prvé řadě zaměřuje na podporu četby autentických děl dětské literatury a jejich možné budoucí využití studenty v hodinách anglického jazyka. Dále se věnuje otázkám spojeným s kvalitami typickými pro díla anglicky psané dětské literatury a rovněž s jejich hlavními žánry a historií.

Literature

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (09.09.2022)

BARONE, D.M. Children’s Literature in the Classroom: Engaging Lifelong Readers. New York, Guilford Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1606239384. 

BASSNETT, S.; GRUNDY, P. Language Through Literature: Creative Language Teaching through Literature. London: Longman, 1993.HAHN, D. The Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature (2nd edition). Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0199695140.

HUNT, Peter. An Introduction to Children's Literature. 1st publ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. An OPUS book. ISBN 0-19-289243-6.REYNOLDS, K. Children’s Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0199560240.

GAMBLE, N., YATES, S. Exploring Children’s Literature – Teaching the Language and Reading of Fiction (2^nd edition). London, SAGE Publications, 2008. ISBN 978-1412930130.

LERER, Seth. Children's Literature – A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter. Chicago University Press, 2009. ISBN 0226473015.

NODELMAN, P.; REIMER, M. The Pleasures of Children’s Literature. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2003, ISBN 978-08-0133-248-7.

TOWNSEND, John Rowe. Written for Children: an Outline of English-language Children's Literature. 6th American ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0-8108-3117-9.

 

Syllabus

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (09.09.2022)

1.      Introduction

2.      Traditional literature

3.      Traditional literature

4.      Picture Books

5.      Picture Books

6.      Poetry

7.      Realistic fiction

8.      Modern Fantasy

9.      Modern Fantasy

10.  Modern Fantasy

11.  Contemporary Fiction

12.  Contemporary Fiction

Course completion requirements

Last update: PhDr. Tereza Topolovská, Ph.D. (09.09.2022)

a) attendance: max. 2 absences are allowed

b) active participation within the seminars

c) preparation for the individual classes, reading of the assigned materials, task completion etc. 

d) language skills are part of the overall assessment.