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Dan Valenti – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2024
Poetry has been around for nearly five millennia, yet never has it been more puzzling. Technology, social media, and the blinding pace of contemporary life leave many students and readers in the dark. Just in time, this book comes to the rescue not just with a response to the problem of understanding and enjoying poetry, but it offers a solution.…
Descriptors: Poetry, Teaching Methods, Authors, Poets
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Farmer, Julia – Hispania, 2018
This article aims to help instructors tackle a perennial challenge in teaching one of the classic works of Spanish literature: Miguel de Cervantes's "Don Quixote." Many instructors teaching the novel for the first time may feel overwhelmed at the prospect of helping students appreciate the numerous ways in which Cervantes references the…
Descriptors: Spanish Literature, Teaching Methods, Literary Genres, Literary Styles
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Connors-Manke, Beth – CEA Forum, 2019
In face-to-face conversation, it's easy to react with shock and moralism to the incivility enabled by social media, easy to lament that we live in an era when communication has gone wrong. The digital era, however has also reinvigorated voice--both written and spoken--in other, less toxic, ways. We've seen a resurgence in oral composition (think:…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Listening Skills, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Doecke, Brenton; Mead, Philip – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2018
This essay poses the question of the role that literary knowledge plays in subject English. It thus engages with current debates, largely prompted by Michael Young's call to 'bring knowledge back in', about the need to restore academic knowledge as the basis of the school curriculum. We take issue with Young's understanding of knowledge, arguing…
Descriptors: English, English Curriculum, English Literature, Educational History
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Kaiser, Mark – L2 Journal, 2018
Working within a multiliteracies framework, this paper moves beyond the traditional concerns with comprehension of a video text or the use of video for communicative purposes and demonstrates how a film clip might be used in a language classroom to explore the meaning-making process in film. Specifically, I investigate how language, filmic…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Visual Aids, Films, Video Technology
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Shen, Yuru – English Language Teaching, 2017
English writing is one of the four indispensable skills that English learners need to master, but unfortunately, many Chinese college students have much difficulty composing clear, concise and coherent essays although they have studied English for at least over six years. To address the problem, the researchers and teachers in China have tried…
Descriptors: Readability, Readability Formulas, Writing Strategies, College Students
Turchi, Laura; Thompson, Ayanna – Phi Delta Kappan, 2013
The Common Core generally eschews mandating texts in favor of promoting critical analysis and rigor. So it's significant that Shakespeare is the only author invoked in imperatives. His explicit inclusion offers a significant opportunity for educators to rethink how we approach Shakespearean instruction. Rather than the traditional learning of…
Descriptors: State Standards, English Literature, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Lockhart, Tara – College English, 2012
This article excavates how style in writing was represented and taught in the under-investigated mid-twentieth century. I trace four editions of the textbook "Modern Rhetoric" (1949-1979), authored by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren; I detail how the book was surprisingly innovative for the time, despite its eventual re-entrenchment to a…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Educational History, Writing Instruction, Literary Styles
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LoMonico, Michael – English Journal, 2012
Why do educators teach literature? The author thinks they can hear the answer in the voice of Huckleberry Finn and David Copperfield and Holden Caulfield and the omniscient narrator in "Beloved." It's the wonderful sound of those words, the gorgeous flow of those well-crafted sentences, and the marvelous way Twain and Dickens and Morrison and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation, Literary Styles
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Newhouse, Kelley R.; Propper, Michele L.; Riedel, Ruth M.; Teitelzweig, Barbara S. – English Journal, 2012
An oxymoron is a simple contradiction, a juxtaposition of two inharmonious terms, such as "fiend angelical" in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." At first glance, literature and professional writing seem to be polar opposites; however, when one views them together, one can see unique, often interesting possibilities that add…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Literature Appreciation, Technical Writing, Writing Skills
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Avila, JuliAnna – English Journal, 2012
In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) concluded that "literature reading is fading as a meaningful activity, especially among younger people." How can educators continue to teach students about the power of literary response when the priority is for them to achieve proficiency on standardized tests, whose scores can only be narrowly…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Language Arts, Grade 11, English Instruction
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Almenoar, Lubna – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2010
A stylistic analysis is one approach of analyzing a literary text using literary descriptions. The use of literary texts in the literature classroom has been limited to mostly Western sources. This paper is an attempt to create an awareness of the linguistic features present in the English language translations of the meaning of the Quran. The…
Descriptors: Literary Styles, Language Styles, Literature Appreciation, Translation
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Dixon, John – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2010
James Moffett's structuralist impulse to carve the "universe of discourse" into four related levels--drama, narrative, exposition, argumentation--was quickly reframed as a rough approximation, as he recognised the ways myth and fictions compressed several layers, and even everyday narratives potentially encapsulated some of the rest.…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Acquisition, Change Agents, Educational Theories
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Ringrose, Christopher – Children's Literature in Education, 2007
A & C Black's "Flashbacks" series invites its readers to "Read a "Flashback"..take a journey backwards in time". There are several ways in which children's fiction has encouraged its readers to engage with and care about history: through the presence of ghosts, through frame stories, time travel, or simply setting the narrative in the past.…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Historiography, Critical Theory, Fiction
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Moon, Brian – English in Australia, 2008
"World of Warcraft" is an online computer game with over nine million players, many of them technically-minded young males. A proportion of these young males engage in spontaneous creative writing about their game adventures. They enjoy highly formulaic genres, such as the epic poem, with its complex technical requirements. This has…
Descriptors: Role Playing, Creative Writing, Fantasy, English Teachers
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