POETRY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: A LESSON PLAN BASED ON POETRY

Kristina Jordan

doi:10.46827/ejes.v8i10.3931

Abstract

The present paper deals with teaching italian as a foreign language through poetry. The poetry chosen for the paper is Promemoria by the italian author Gianni Rodari. The aim of the paper is to suggest an example of a lesson plan based on the poem and is intended for the A2 level (according to CEFR). The suggested lesson plan framework based on poetry attempts to realize further objectives: to make students learn a foreign language based on an authentic material, to generate their interest into poetry, and finally, to promote integration of literature, especially poetry, into the foreign language teaching. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0853/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

Highlights

Integrating literature into the foreign language curriculum has provoked much discussion among scholars
By writing this paper in the form of a proposed step-by-step lesson plan, the intention is to promote the use of literature, especially poetry, in the foreign language teaching
During the suggested lesson plan students have come into contact with an authentic material - poetry

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Introduction

Integrating literature into the foreign language curriculum has provoked much discussion among scholars. Different attitudes on using literature in classroom are not the topic of the present paper. By writing this paper in the form of a proposed step-by-step lesson plan, the intention is to promote the use of literature, especially poetry, in the foreign language teaching. The use of literature in clasroom has many benefits. First of all, it is an authentic material, that is, the one originally written for the native speakers of a foreign language, which directly exposes students to the authentic “formation and function of the sentences“ as well as to the “variety of possible structures and different ways of connecting ideas“ (Collie & Slater, 1987: 5).

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