Metafictional Play in Children's Fiction

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Peningkatan Keterampilan Menyimak Cerita Fiksi Anak Menggunakan Media Audio pada Siswa Kelas V SD

Teachers consider listening skills are easy to learn so it is not so encouraged within teacher makes learning less motivated to look for right media in listening to lessons will be delivered. General objective of this study is to describe use of audio media can improve listening skills of children's fiction story fifth grade students of SDN 14 South Pontianak. Research method used is descriptive, form of research is Classroom Action Research, the nature of reseach is collaborative. Subjects in this research were students of class V totaling 25 students. This research was conducted as two cycles, result obtained is ability of teachers to design learning using audio media, on first cycle is 3,64 (very good) and second cycle is 3.88 (very good). The ability of teachers to implement learning by using audio media on first cycle 3,31 (good) and second cycle is 3.80 (very good). Calculation result of average value of fiction children's listening skills using audio media, namely 72.05 in first cycle and second cycle is 81.53, with an increase of 9.48. It can be concluded that use of audio media can improve listening skills of children's fiction story fifth grade students of SDN 14 South Pontianak

Main areas of coherent speech rehabilitation in preschool children with general speech underdevelopment

The study is devoted to the solution of the problem of improvement of the content and organization of rehabilitation-educational work on the development of coherent speech in preschool children with speech disorders by means of children's fiction, which ensures comprehensive development of senior preschoolers with general speech underdevelopment.В данной статье рассматривается коррекционно-развивающая работа по развитию связной речи дошкольников с речевыми нарушениями средствами детской художественной литературы

Ethel Turner and the ‘Voices of Dissent’: Masculinities and Fatherhood in The Cub and Captain Cub

In his interesting study 'Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity 1870-1920', Martin Crotty argues that turn-of-the-century Australians firmly rejected the androgynous, domesticated gender role that both children's fiction and the public schools had offered Australian boys in the 1870s... Work such as Crotty's should help to inspire any number of reexaminations of the masculine gender role in texts that sought to acculturate young readers before, during, and after the Great War

Post-Colonial Resignification of Domestic Spatiality in Australian Children's Fiction

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Past and Present: the Uses of History in Children's Fiction

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Visualization of database structures for information retrieval

This paper describes the Book House system, which is designed to support children's information retrieval in libraries as part of their education. It is a shareware program available on CD‐ROM or floppy disks, and comprises functionality for database searching as well as for classifying and storing book information in the database. The system concept is based on an understanding of children's domain structures and their capabilities for categorization of information needs in connection with their activities in schools, in school libraries or in public libraries. These structures are visualized in the interface by using metaphors and multimedia technology. Through the use of text, images and animation, the Book House encourages children ‐ even at a very early age ‐ to learn by doing in an enjoyable way, which plays on their previous experiences with computer games. Both words and pictures can be used for searching; this makes the system suitable for all age groups. Even children who have not yet learned to read properly can, by selecting pictures, search for and find those books they would like to have read aloud. Thus, at the very beginning of their school life, they can learn to search for books on their own. For the library community, such a system will provide an extended service which will increase the number of children's own searches and also improve the relevance, quality and utilization of the book collections in the libraries. A market research report on the need for an annual indexing service for books in the Book House format is in preparation by the Danish Library Centre A/S