<b>My Own Invention</b>: <i>The Adventures of Pinocchio</i> as an EFL Text

  • Beth Roberts

Abstract

Collodi's tale of a wooden puppet who becomes a real live boy is a very effective EFL text because it is downright fun. Reading it is a romp through a fantasy world that stretches one's imagination, while at the same time instructing on behavior and Italian life.

Author Biography

Beth Roberts
David Beagley is Lecturer in Children's Literature and Literacy at La Trobe University's Bendigo campus, Victoria, Australia, where he teaches units in Genres, History, Australian and Post-colonial children's literature. He has previously taught in secondary schools, and has been a school and university librarian.
Issue
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2003)
Section
Jabberwocky
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