Presented By Sandie Mourão

Session Details

A picture book narrative is produced from the inter-animation of a verbal and a visual text. In this talk I will discuss the types of interplay between these two texts; share some results obtained in EFL classrooms in Portugal, where the visual text has played an important role in promoting language acquisition, and discuss the implications for our classroom practice.

About Sandie Mourão

Sandie Mourão is a freelance teacher, teacher trainer, consultant and materials designer based in Portugal. She specialises in pre-school and lower primary and is particularly interested in the use of free play and children’s literature to promote language acquisition. Sandie has presented widely in ELT conferences and also contributes to a number of ELT and academic journals. She has worked on writing projects with Scholastic USA, Mary Glasgow Scholastic, OUP and Macmillan Mexico, as well as with publishers in Portugal.  In January 2008 Sandie began a doctoral research project at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.  Her research involves investigating the role of picture book illustration in foreign language acquisition.

Sandie has been an active voluteer within IATEFL for a decade, first as discussion list moderator then coordinator of the Young Learner SIG and more recently as SIG Representative, trustee and a member of the Coordinating Committee. 

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