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Tell the world : storytelling across language barriers
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Tell the world : storytelling across language barriers

Author: Margaret Read MacDonald
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Explores the techniques of bilingual storytelling, along with information on using storytelling in language instruction, presenting workshops, and translation into sign language.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Margaret Read MacDonald
ISBN: 9781591583141 1591583144
OCLC Number: 145431644
Description: xii, 180 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Chapter One: Telling Through Translation Margaret Read MacDonald --
Chapter Two: Line-by-line translation Margaret Read MacDonald --
Chapter Three: Tandem telling --
Chapter Four: More than Words: Storytelling Without Translation --
Chapter Five: One Teller, One Story, Two Languages --
Chapter Six: On the translator's role. --
Chapter Seven: Performing in a Second Language. --
Chapter Eight: Story in Language Instruction. --
Chapter Nine: Presenting Tellers of Other Languages. --
Chapter Ten: Presenting Workshops --
Chapter Eleven: Translation into a Signed Language --
Chapter Twelve: Cultural Considerations --
Chapter Thirteen: A Language of No Words --
Chapter Fourteen: Tellers Travel --
Chapter Fifteen: On The Translator's Art --
Chapter Sixteen: Bibliographies.
Responsibility: compiled and edited by Margaret Read MacDonald.
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Shares various tips and techniques that help bridge the language gap; along with sample stories that librarians, teachers, and professional storytellers can incorporate into their repertoires. This  Read more...

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""Tell the World" is a wonderful resource for storytellers, educators, and librarians. It provides a framework from which even individuals who have never been bitten by the storytelling bug can benefit as she highlights a variety of basic storytelling techniques, including line-by-line, tandem telling, summarizing, and interesting phrases....MacDonald has done a good job of bringing together a variety of voices frmo throughout the world who share her passion for storytelling." -

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