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@inproceedings{Herd:2016,
author = {Herd, RA},
pages = {261--272},
publisher = {Sinolingua London Ltd},
title = {The Use of the Detective Story Format in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language},
year = {2016}
}
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AB - Two main strands in the application of the detective story format to the foreign language classroom may be identified: the use of authentic materials selected from widely-recognised masters of the genre, which may be annotated and/or edited for use by learners, and original materials tailor-made for use by foreign learners based on that format. This paper focuses on the latter. While there appear to be few examples as yet of the application of this format to the creation of original materials for the teaching of Chinese, its use in TEFL has a long history, Fiction in Action: Whodunit by Adam Gray and Marcos Benevides (winner of the 2010 HRH the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union Book Award) being only one example. This paper takes up as a case study another notable work, Troll i Ord, a course in Norwegian by Anne Bjørnebek. In addition, a selected text, taken from the Chinese Breeze Graded Reader Series (2007), provides the material on which to conduct a comparative analysis with specific reference to Chinese. Aspects covered in the paper include vocabulary, grammar and cultural context. The paper seeks to demonstrate the way in which the application of the detective fiction genre to language teaching can be extremely valuable, not just in the creation of reading materials, but also when taken as the basis upon which to construct entire courses. The paper also sets out the way in which this genre format has been successfully applied at Imperial College London to the assessment of oral competence.
AU - Herd,RA
EP - 272
PB - Sinolingua London Ltd
PY - 2016///
SP - 261
TI - The Use of the Detective Story Format in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
ER -