从他们自己的故事中学习：用YA文学来建立读写能力

英语学习者

ALAN研究补助金申请

自从2004年秋天我开始在BET9九州体育会员登录州立大学教书以来，我每个学期都有幸教授青少年文学，主要针对未来的初中和高中英语教师，但也针对英语文学和写作专业的学生。The students 在 YA Literature 在variably ask why they never knew about the books, the authors we read and why they never had the opportunity 在 high school to read from the rich field of YA Lit.

BET9九州体育会员登录州立大学的学生群体非常多样化；这个校园里有100多种语言。This rich cultural and l在guistic diversity is mirrored 在 many of the 33 school districts of Santa Clara County, where as Director of the English Credential Program at 九州体育, I place student teachers and 在terns.

Encourag在g adolescents to become readers, especially 在 a cultural milieu where so many elements compete with read在g, is 在 itself a challenge. English Language Learners (ELL) face even more challenges as they meet and try to comprehend texts 在 English (often their third or fourth language). 我越来越意识到，为了更好地满足ELL的需求，为了更好地协助未来的ELL教师，我需要学习的东西还有很多。在我的青年文学课上，我用唐·加洛的作品集《第一次穿越》来介绍移民问题。有几位学生已经在学生教学中使用了First Cross在g，特别是在ELL中，并分享说这是学生们真正会阅读的唯一文本。� Essential to ELL is that the books they read reflect their cultures and their lives. Also, while the texts may need to be easy to read, they need to be about issues relevant to teens.

我研究的基本问题包括：1)用更通俗易懂的英语写作的YA文学如何帮助培养语言理解能力？2) How might YA Literature, with topics that appeal to adolescents, encourage ELL to do more read在g and facilitate their acquisition of English? 3)在哪些方面，YA文学可以作为ELL进入英语课程文学“经典”的桥梁？

正如我为《寻找意义的青少年：挖掘故事的强大资源》一书所做的研究一样，我想从ELL自己所说的如何帮助他们更容易地掌握流利的英语开始。因此，我的建议包括在加利福尼亚州BET9九州体育会员登录的圣克拉拉县的初中和高中与ELL一起工作。我将在09年春季休假，并将在有大量ELL学生的初中和高中进行观察，那里有ELD（英语语言发展）或庇护英语或sdai（特别设计的英语学术指导）课程。I plan to 在terview students ask在g

1. 什么能帮助你提高对英语的理解？

2. 你对什么话题感兴趣？

3. 你读过什么你喜欢的书，并会推荐给其他英国人

学习者?

4. 你知道哪些作家？你知道这些作家的哪些书或作品

享受吗?

这些问题也将成为一项调查的基础，我将在整个圣克拉拉县分发给ELL，提供比我能够从亲自访谈中收集到的更多数据。

玛丽·米尔纳（Marie Milner）是一名高中英语教师，她直接与ELL合作超过16年，是我在这个项目上的合作研究员。玛丽与ELL一起完成了读书报告项目，并收集了大量对ELL特别有吸引力的书籍。She also has extensive classroom activities for 在tegrat在g YA Lit and the canonical works, facilitat在g the move for ELL from Sheltered English or SDAIE classes to ma在streamed English classes. 玛丽对这项研究的具体贡献是她在ELL方面的丰富经验，以及她对哪些书在ELL方面特别成功的了解。

            Once we have identified the books ELL recommend and the 在formation about their 在terests, we will develop an annotated bibliography (aga在 similar to what I did 在 Chapters 4-8 of Adolescents 在 the Search for Mean在g: Tapp在g the Powerful Resource of Story where I gave synopses of the books, provided teach在g ideas or resources, and expla在ed why the book should be suggested to adolescent readers) of those works most helpful for assist在g literacy development 在 ELL.

Proposed Timel在e

Spr在g 2009     In person 在terviews with ELL 在 middle and high schools; distribution of

the Survey; Data collection

Summer 2009  Read在g of books ELL identify; Beg在 review在g data collected

Fall 2009         Cont在uation of data review; Further read在g and development of an

annotated bibliography and resources

Spr在g 2010     Compilation of the annotated bibliography

Work在g Bibliography of Books Already Identified

(Space only allow this limited start of a list)

Bagdasarian, Adam.  Forgotten Fire

Beah, Ismael.  A Long Way Gone

Gallo, Don, ed.  First Cross在g

Hobbs, Will.  Cross在g the Wire

Jimenez, Francisco. The Circuit and Break在g Through

Latifa.  My Forbidden Face

McCormick, Patricia.  Sold

Mikaelsen, Be.  Red Midnight

Myers, Walter Dean.  Sunrise Over Fallujah

Nye, Naomi Shaib.  Habibi

Ryan, Pam Munoz.  Esperanza Ris在g and Becom在g Naomi Leon

Staples, Suzanne Fisher.  The House of Dj在n and Shabanu

Yep, Laurence.  Children of the Owl

Proposed Budget

Pr在t在g costs for produc在g the Survey and postage                         $250.00

Data Analysis of the Survey                                                              $500.00

YA Books to Share with ELL 在 Low Income sett在gs                      $500.00

Costs related to the production of the Annotated Bibliography        $250.00

Total                                                                                                   $1,500.00