The learning between the lines: a study on why and how to teach poetry in ESL class

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Sheila Machado da
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNIPAMPA
• Texto Completo: http://dspace.unipampa.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riu/2565
• topic: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES; Literature; ESL teaching; Reading; Poetry

This research in applied linguistics of additional language aims to demonstrate the benefits of the use of poetry in ESL classroom, in order to contribute to an education that seeks to promote personal growth. For that, a literary review is made as to conjugate theories concerning the teaching of literature and its relevance towards linguistic improvement in the second language. Here, we approximate the idea that literature is an inalienable right to every human person (CANDIDO) to the concepts behind strategies of language teaching through literature developed by Lazar (1993), Duff and Maley (1991), among others. Furthermore, we investigate language teaching through literature with the application of a teaching project regarding the reading of poetry. The results show that, as we presumed, ESL teaching has not been taking profit of literature as resource. The practice of the project proved that the teaching of poetry can be very effective in promoting motivation and reading autonomy. Therefore, in agreement with Widdowson (1988, apud HESS 1999), we encourage the use of poetry as an ESL pedagogical and educational resource.