LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:2 February 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Poetry Ideas for the Primary Class

Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary, Ph.D.

Abstract

Poetry offers a "rich, varied repertoire and a source for much enjoyment for teacher and learner alike" (Collie and Slater, 1987, p. 226). In primary classes, poetry can be exploited to facilitate the learning of language and prepare students for the subsequent encounters with literature at later stages of their education. These benefits can be obtained only with judicious text selections and pedagogical decisions, or else the introduction of poetry at this early stage of education may defeat its purpose and generate aversion to poetry. This paper proposes a language-based approach to poetry for use with high-level primary students in English-medium schools. In order to demonstrate the arguments, the researcher proposes a lesson plan based on a stylistic analysis of a poem.

Introduction

The nature of poetic communication in poetry is complex. The poet may be the speaker in the poem, or the addressor of its message, or both. The receiver of the message is its reader, but the addressee may be a human or non-human character in the poem, if there happens to be one. The uni-directional sender-message-receiver feature that is characteristic of conventional communication does not obtain in poetry.

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Gibreel Sadeq Alaghbary, Ph.D.
Centre for Languages and Translation, Taiz University, Yemen
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