The Raja’s Big Ears: The Journey of a Story  

Oleh:

Sneddon, Raymonde ; Patel, Kanta

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 17 no. 5 (2003), page 371-384.
Fulltext: Vol. 17, No. 5, p 371-384.pdf (228.3KB)

Isi artikel

The storyof The Raja’s Big Ears, aswe encounteredit,has been on a long journey. Inthe course of a wider study of the language use and literacypractices of Gujerati-speaking Muslim children in a North London community, children were recorded retelling the tale both in English and Gujerati. The present study explores how the story travelled: from Gujerat, in India, where it is a well-known folk tale, via a skilled story-teller, to London, where it was transformed through contact with the multicultural world of London schoolchildren. The study is situated within the theoretical framework of language shift, social networks and theCummins’ concept of the Common Underlying Proficiency. As the children in the study retold the tale,we lookedmore closely at how they – third generation Londoners and speakers of a dialect of Gujerati – came to terms with the very formal and unfamiliar standardGujerati of the story, and how they made it their own.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali