‘Use of Poetry for Effective Teaching of English’ by Reena Mittal

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 10 | March 31, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

A Poetry is a piece of writing in which words are arranged beautifully and rhythmically. We have recently celebrated World Poetry Day on 21st March and suddenly this thought come into my mind to write something on this topic. Studying and writing poetry can give expression and communication to the students and teachers both. We need poetry to promote language teaching emotionally and holistically. Poetry helps to use Figure of Speech, Adjectives, Phrases and symbolic words spontaneously to show feelings. When we read, listen or write something aloud and rhythmically we easily learn it.

  • A student can use and fit words in poetic composition.
  • Correct use of vocabulary and grammatically correct language can be learned.
  • Students can learn use of Thesaurus, Phrases, structure, verb and tenses.
  • Nurture student’s imagination and creativity as well as build their confidence level.

These are the basic uses poetry can bring into EET( Effective English Teaching). It brings emotions, rhyme and congenial expression in classroom. (more…)

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‘Approaching a Literary Text Stylistically’ by Dr Shibu Simon

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 10 | March 31, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]

 

The crux of the problem in teaching literature is how to guide the learners to develop an individual response to literature. Such a guidance will have to focus on the values linguistic units acquire in contexts of use and in orienting learners to discover these values on their own. H.G. Widdowson in his epoch-making work Stylistics and the Teaching of Literature underlines this observation:

Since poetic meanings are of their very nature unspecific and ambiguous . . . there is no such thing as a definitive interpretation. What is important, however (particularly from the teaching point of view) is that the individual interpretation should be based on an understanding of how linguistic items take on particular values in discourse1.

This paper can be described as an attempt to evolve a practical methodology for the teaching of literature with this specific objective in mind: how the learners can be led to discover independently the way language items are conditioned in the context to take on meanings other than those they have in the language code and to infer the message the writer is trying to convey as part of it. (more…)

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‘Writing Skills – through a looking glass’ by Bushra Pasha

[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 10 | March 31, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] Precisely, what do we do as writers when we compose a piece of script? What kind of mood, behavior,…

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