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Newfield, Denise; Byrne, Deirdre C. – Education as Change, 2020
This article concerns ZAPP (the South African Poetry Project), which is a community of poets, scholars (including the authors), teachers and students, established in 2013 to promote, in educational systems, the work of contemporary South African poets. For the past three years (2017-2019), we have attempted through outreach and research to…
Descriptors: Poetry, Program Descriptions, Poets, Educational Change
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Newfield, Denise; D'abdon, Raphael – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
This conceptual article theorises the role of poetry in English classrooms from a multimodal perspective. It discusses the gap between the practices of poetry inside and outside South African schools, particularly where English is taught as an additional language (EAL). The former is shown to be monomodal and prescriptive, while the latter is…
Descriptors: Poetry, Role, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning