Storytelling as a Cultural Practice

Maria Cristina Gatti (PhD) is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), where she also directs the Center for Academic Writing. She is an advisory member of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue (CID). As an applied linguist, she is currently leading research programmes on narrative in multilingual and multicultural settings, the role of English in multilingual education and professional environments, and language variation in transnational communication contexts.Jeanette Hoffmann (PhD) is Full Professor of German Literature Didactics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy), where she also directs the EduSpace Children’sLiteratureLab. Previously, she was Full Professor at the Technische Universität Dresden and worked at the University of Education Upper Austria and the Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests are graphic storytelling, reading engagement, literary learning and language education in multilingual and intercultural contexts.

• Contributors – Maria Cristina Gatti and Jeanette Hoffmann: Storytelling as a Cultural Practice – I Storytelling throughout the course of life, and within different social and media contexts – Petra Wieler: Children’s Own Stories as Representations of the Self and Their Views of the World — Daniel Perrin and Marlies Whitehouse: Public Storytelling in Finance: The Societal Practice of Having Narratives Emerge – Sjaak Kroon and Massimiliano Spotti: New Narratives in the Online-Offline Nexus – II Storytelling with, and in, picturebooks – Jeanette Hoffmann: Storytelling with Picturebooks in Multilingual Contexts of South Tyrol (IMAGO) – Benjamin Uhl: Wordless Picturebooks, Narrative Scaffolding and the Acquisition of Narrative Skills: A Usage-Based Approach to How Children Construct a Story – Elisa Bertoldi: Telling TALES about Nature in English L2: Selecting and Performing Picturebooks for Children – Caroline Wittig: Multimodal Storytelling in Panel Readings – Katharina Egerer: Creating Stories Within Stories: Typewriters in Contemporary Picturebooks – III Storytelling in children and young adults’ drawings, writings and reading – Iris Nentwig-Gesemann: Narratives as Compositions of Pictorial and Linguistic Elements – Franziska Herrmann : Between Imagination, Convention and Corporeality: Written Storytelling as an Aesthetic Learning Process – Kirsten Hunt : The Space Between: A Posthuman Approach to Reader’s Response – IV Storytelling in English language teaching and teacher education – Emilia Petrocelli and Sergio Pizziconi: Interactional and Cognitive Aspects of Storytelling in English Language Acquisition – Valentina Gobbett Bamber: Oral Storytelling Pedagogies in Teaching English to Young Learners – Raffaella Leproni and Barbara De Angelis: Storytelling, a Pedagogical Device in Higher Education