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- Title
Attitudes towards using The Simpsons to engage students in the English classroom.
- Authors
Heffernan, Amanda
- Abstract
This article explores teacher, student and parent attitudes towards the use of the television show The Simpsons as a tool to engage middle years students in English. Although The Simpsons has been shown to be an effective text in engaging students, teachers avoid using it due to concerns about parental approval. The article reports a study conducted in a remote Queensland P-10 school and contributes to current understandings about the use of popular culture in the middle years.
- Subjects
SIMPSONS, The (TV program); AUDIOVISUAL aids in middle school education; ENGLISH language education in middle schools; TELEVISION in education; MIDDLE school students
- Publication
Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 2, p55
- ISSN
1320-5692
- Publication type
Article