Storytelling Revisited 2018: Gender, Language, Music, Cinema
If Storytelling represents the art of explaining a story, the term itself appeals to everyone. Storytelling allows oneself to express freely and creatively through ideas. A common cultural word represents every single moment of every single part of a lifetime. The term has become popular in a mixed reception, either for educa tion, government, corporate, audio-visual, civil society, but espe cially in academia which may vary in intensity and interest in a number of ways. However, no matter how, it finds a way to be expressed, so it remains alive.
This book is the result of the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC) organising the First International Conference entitled: “Storytelling Revisited: Gender, Language, Music and Cinema in Children’s Literature”, held in Vic (Barcelona), on 28 November 2018. This Conference provided a forum for teachers, students and researchers to go deeper into the relation ship between gender, language, music, cinema in children’s litera ture within the field of EFL teaching for Early Years and Primary Education. It was an interdisciplinary conference organised by the three research groups GEHTLIC, TEXLICO and GRELL at the Faculty of Education Translation and Human Sciences. This academic meeting revolved around the study of narrative struc tures applied to the classroom. The overarching goal was to stimulate discussion and to highlight the importance of establishing criteria regarding the choice of narrative structures for classroom work, in the EFL classroom.
Children’s literature, cinema adaptations, gender issues, the use of music and language teaching are fundamental pillars both in the teaching of English for young and very young learners. Particularly, the bias of gender usually found in narrative structures and the multiple languages that they might include. This first volume of Storytelling Revisited aims at offering a wide range of approaches to storytelling: picture books for science education, songs and narrative structures in storybooks, autobiography related to storytelling, intercultural practice through storytelling, identity gender, transmedia storytelling and CLIL teacher education.
Storytelling Revisited is a compound of research articles, arisen
from the contributions of the authors in this first Conference. The
following lines offer a brief of their investigations, with the com mon ground of storytelling
