English Language Children’s Literature as a Springboard for Teacher-Researcher International Collaboration
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https://doi.org/10.31074/gyntf.2021.1.39.56Keywords:
children’s literature, stories, songs and rhymes, international collaboration, TEYL (teaching English to young learners), teachers as researchersAbstract
This article discusses various forms of collaboration in terms of research, teaching and innovation conducted in the field of children’s literature by four lecturers from the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (Uvic-UCC), Catalonia (Spain) and Faculty of Primary and Preschool Education, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE TÓK), Budapest (Hungary). The research project that focused on the use of stories, songs and rhymes in the early English language education provided at a number of primary and preschools in Catalonia and Hungary forms the centrepiece of this joint study. The present article is an account of the follow-up research that completed the project.
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