Bibliography
Project publications:
Ahrens, Kathleen and Marija Todorova. (tentative 2022) “English Language Children’s Literature in and about Hong Kong in ESL Education” International Research in Children’s Literature 15.1 Special Issue of Asian Voices in the World: Asian Children’s Literature Research ed. Haifeng Hui.
Project presentations:
Ahrens, Kathleen and Marija Todorova. "Hong Kong in Anglophone Literature for Children", 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for Hong Kong Studies, University of Hong Kong, June 22, 2019.
Ahrens, Kathleen and Marija Todorova. “Learning English in Hong Kong: the ecology of authentic children’s literature”, Language and Ecology: Towards a Shared Narrative in Interdisciplinary Research, Shue Yan University, 05 - 07 Sep 2019.
Selected Bibliography:
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Bishop, R. S. 1990. Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Perspectives Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom, 6(3), ix-xi.
Bolton, Kingsley and Shirley Geok-lin Lim. 2002. Futures for Hong Kong English. In Hong Kong English: Autonomy and Creativity, edited by Kingsley Bolton. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, pp. 295-313
Brumfit, Christopher and Ronald Carter. 1997. Literature and Language Teaching, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Collie, J. and S. Slater. 1987. Literature in the Language Classroom: A resource book of ideas and activities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ghosh, K. Irma. 2002. Four good reasons to use literature in primary school ELT. ELT Journal. 56 (2): 172-179.
Gower, R., and Pearson, M. 1986. Reading Literature. London: Longman.
Hadaway, N.L., Vardell, S.M., & Young, T.A. (2002). Literature-based instruction with English language learners, K-12. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
Hill, J. 1986. Using Literature in Language Teaching. London: Macmillan.
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Kennedy Peter and Peter Falvey. (eds.). 1998. Learning language through literature in primary schools: resource book for teachers of English. Hong Kong. Hong Kong University Press.
Koutsompou Violetta-Irene. 2015. The Use of Literature in the Language Classroom: Methods and Aims. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1, 74-79.
Lazar, Gilian. 1993. Literature and Language Teaching : A Guide for Teachers and Trainers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Maley, A. 2001. "Literature in the Language Classroom". In R. Carter and D.Nunan ( eds.). The Cambridge Guide to TESOL, pp. 180-185. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McKay. S. 1982. Literature in the ESL Classroom. TESOL Quarterly, 16, 529-536.
Oster, J. 1989. Seeing with different eyes: another view of literature in the ESL class. TESOL Quarterly, 23, 85-103.
Painter, Clare, J. R Martin and Len Unsworth. 2013. Reading Visual Narratives: Image Analysis of Children's Picture Books. London: Equinox.
Pugh, Sharon. 1989. Literature, culture, and ESL: A natural convergence. Journal of Reading, 32, 320-329.
Todorova, Marija. 2018. "Hong Kong's Diversity in Anglophone Children's Fiction." In Jason Polley, Vinton Poon and Lian-Hee We (eds.) Cultural Conflict in Hong Kong: Angles on a Coherent Imaginary. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 71-86.
Turnbull, Mary C. 1990. "Hong Kong: fragrant harbor, city of sin and death". In Asia in Western Fiction, edited by Robyn W. Winks and James Robert Rush, 117-136. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Unsworth, Len, and Thi Hang Ngo. 2015. The role of images in Vietnamese textbooks for the teaching of English as a Foreign Language. Language and Life, 231(1), 93-100.
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Yilmaz, C. 2012. Introducing literature to an EFL classroom: Teacher's instructional methods and students' attitudes toward the study ofliterature. English Language Teaching, 5 (1), 86-99.