Storytelling as a Cultural Practice: Pedagogical and Linguistic Perspectives (Paperback)

Contributors ? Maria Cristina Gatti and Jeanette Hoffmann: Storytelling as a Cultural Practice ? I Storytelling throughout the course of life, and within different social and media contexts ? Petra Wieler: Children’s Own Stories as Representations of the Self and Their Views of the World ? Daniel Perrin and Marlies Whitehouse: Public Storytelling in Finance: The Societal Practice of Having Narratives Emerge ? Sjaak Kroon and Massimiliano Spotti: New Narratives in the Online-Offline Nexus ? II Storytelling with, and in, picturebooks ? Jeanette Hoffmann: Storytelling with Picturebooks in Multilingual Contexts of South Tyrol (IMAGO) ? Benjamin Uhl: Wordless Picturebooks, Narrative Scaffolding and the Acquisition of Narrative Skills: A Usage-Based Approach to How Children Construct a Story ? Elisa Bertoldi: Telling TALES about Nature in English L2: Selecting and Performing Picturebooks for Children ? Caroline Wittig: Multimodal Storytelling in Panel Readings ? Katharina Egerer: Creating Stories Within Stories: Typewriters in Contemporary Picturebooks ? III Storytelling in children and young adults’ drawings, writings and reading ? Iris Nentwig-Gesemann: Narratives as Compositions of Pictorial and Linguistic Elements ? Franziska Herrmann : Between Imagination, Convention and Corporeality: Written Storytelling as an Aesthetic Learning Process ? Kirsten Hunt : The Space Between: A Posthuman Approach to Reader’s Response ? IV Storytelling in English language teaching and teacher education ? Emilia Petrocelli and Sergio Pizziconi: Interactional and Cognitive Aspects of Storytelling in English Language Acquisition ? Valentina Gobbett Bamber: Oral Storytelling Pedagogies in Teaching English to Young Learners ? Raffaella Leproni and Barbara De Angelis: Storytelling, a Pedagogical Device in Higher Education