Playing with words and pictures: using post-modernist picture books as a resource with teenage and adult language learners

Lazar, Gillian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9675-4880 (2015) Playing with words and pictures: using post-modernist picture books as a resource with teenage and adult language learners. In: Literature and language learning in the EFL classroom. Teranishi, M., Saito, Y. and Wales, K., eds. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, pp. 94-111. ISBN 9781137443656. [Book Section]

Abstract

Post-modernist picturebooks in English have been characterised as children’s books with pictures that subvert literary conventions, manifest complex intertextuality, and communicate multiple meanings leading to open-ended interpretations. Such picture books, including those by Anthony Browne, Shaun Tan and Mimi Grey, while apparently targeted at children, provide a rich resource for developing language and cultural awareness, interpretive strategies and creativity in both teenage and adult learners of English at high school and at university. This chapter begins with a discussion of key features of post-modernist picture books relevant to language learning, with examples given from specific texts. A range of practical activities for exploiting these books in the classroom, as well as with teachers of English in training, is then presented.

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