Storytelling Revisited 2019: Music, Gender, Language, Cinema
If Storytelling represents the art of explaining a story, the term itself ap[1]peals 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 education, government, corporate, audiovisual, civil society, but especially in academia which may vary in inten[1]sity 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 Second International Conference entitled: “Storytelling Revisited: Music, Gender, Language and Cinema in Children’s Literature”, held in Vic (Barcelona), on 27 November 2019. This Conference provided a forum for teachers, students and researchers to go deeper into the relationship between music, gender, language and cinema in children’s literature within the field of EFL teaching for Early Years and Primary Education. It was an interdisciplinary conference organised by the three research groups GRELL, GETLIHC and TEXLICO at the Faculty of Education Translation and Human Sciences. This academic meeting re[1]volved around the study of music and narrative structures applied to the classroom. Our overarching goal was to stimulate discussion and to highlight the importance of establishing criteria regarding the choice of music and storytelling for classroom work, in the EFL classroom. Children’s songs, melodies, literature, cinema genres and adaptations, gender issues, the use of music and language learning 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 second volume of Storytelling Revisited aims at offering a wide range of approaches to story[1]telling: children’s engagement to their own creative process through crafted conversation and observation, the motivational impact of storytelling for young learners, how to select a reader and the linguistic and cultural strategies to cope with in certain works, the element of storytelling in RAP, the planning of a new children’s cantata, a specific communication strat[1]egy used with autistic subjects called “social history”, women and migra[1]tion in children’s literature, the use of traditional stories in the classroom, detective roles in young learner’s literature and Storytelling effectiveness in organizational management, especially to understand the Corporate Social Responsibility This second volume of Storytelling revisited is a compound of research articles and communications, arisen from the contributions of the authors in this Second Conference. The following lines offer a brief of their inves[1]tigations, with the common ground of storytelling. While this introduction has explained the elaborated on the structure of this volume and the origins, the conclusion will be drawn on each of its ar[1]ticles and communications, serving as a proposal for next years’ appointment in the third edition of the Conference, always searching common ground and looking towards the further deepening and development of storytelling theory in the future.
