Developing Bilingual Story-Based Materials for Improving 8 to 14-Year-Old Student's Emotional Literacy

The purpose of the present study is to develop bilingual story books for improving 8 to 14-year-old students’ emotional literacy, because most of the available materials and books in ELT markets are based on methods and approaches which is rooted in linguistics, psychology or other social schools. However, few of them have considered the aspects of emotion in biliteracy. To do so, it was developed some bilingual story books with the activities which are based on Bowkett and Percival (2010) model of emotional intelligence and Bruner (1969) intellectual development. Then, these story books were taught to a group of 30 students between 8 to 14. In addition, the classroom observation was gathered and also after teaching the story books, an unstructured interview was conducted regarding the students’ opinions about the story book. The results indicated that the developed story books are valid enough to improve 8 to 14-year-old students’ emotional literacy.