Developing Poetic Writing Skills: A Teaching Technique for Advanced ESL/EFL Learners

Mamadou Dieng

doi:10.22158/eshs.v3n1p1

Abstract

This article attempts to showcase a number of techniques to teach poetic writing skills in EFL settings. First and foremost, we have tried to identify and propose corrective attitudes to work out the psychological obstacles that impede the practice of poetry in many EFL classrooms. Then, we have selected some basic characteristics of poetic discourse through lyric songs to increase learners’ awareness of the specificities of poetry. The mastery of the structure and functioning of figurative language has been the essential skill to develop. Furthermore, the technique privileges the process-oriented approach which is based on well-structured, harmonious and interrelated phases to help learners start composing simple verses and poems.

Highlights

A review of literature on poetry in language learning reveals a unilateral orientation from the part of educationalists and researchers in general
The technique privileges the process-oriented approach which is based on well-structured, harmonious and interrelated phases to help learners start composing simple verses and poems
Kitty Johnson’s study (2006) stands as an exception among a global tendency to analyse poetry from the point of view of historicity, social function, structural and linguistic patterns and role in language acquisition.The article is a sustained attempt to delineate the role of poetry in language learning and the development of poetic writing skills

Summary

Original Paper

Society and Human Studies ISSN 2690-3679 (Print) ISSN 2690-3687 (Online). Developing Poetic Writing Skills: A Teaching Technique for Advanced ESL/EFL Learners. Mamadou Dieng (Ph.D.)1* 1 Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal * MamadouDieng, Gaston Berger University, Saint-Louis, Senegal. Received: November 30, 2021 Accepted: December 7, 2021 Online Published: December 13, 2021 doi:10.22158/eshs.v3n1p1

Introduction

Made me a woman My spirit takes flight

Love is an ocean

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