Real Language Through Poetry: a formula for meaning making

1. What are the advantages of using literature in language lessons?

 In their practica approach to literature in language teaching, promote literature as authentic

material that deals with ever-present human concerns, and allows students to enter and inhabit the landscape of a text that touches emotions and invites personal involvement. The teaching of language through the use of poetry has been seen as a road to meaning making by ESL practitioners from both philosophical and practical perspectives.

2. what are the steps in the study and what is the aim of each step?

 -Trigger

The function of trigger activities is the building of schemata.

-Vocabulary Preview

Students understand the word, be able to pronounce it, to spell it, and to use it in a sentence.

-Bridge

It connects the trigger activity to the text to be read.

-Listen, React(x₃), and Share

The teacher does a dramatic reading of the entire poem while students listen and follw along in the text. At the conclusion of the reading students stand and mingle. They meet with one or two classmates and talk about their initial impressions.

-Language

The poem and analyze its language as it pertains and adds to the meaning of the poem.

-Picture

İmage from the page and together with the help of her students, paint in it its lustrous colors.

-More Language

When the poem has become very much our own, students enjoy working closer with the language.

-Meaning

Such a conclusions frequently leads us to a discussion of what is needed for happiness.

-Spin-off

They are almost the opposite of the trigger activities.

3.What are the roles of teacher for each step?

 -Trigger 

create the kind of mental landscape that will ease the students into the poem, and give them enough anticipatory pleasure to afford a natural glide into context.

-Vocabulary Review

should not explain a word until he/she first elicits it from students.

-Bridge

uses bridge sentences.

- Listen, React(x₃), and Share

 does a dramatic reading of entire poem while students listen and follow along in the text.

-Language

together the teacher and students return to the poem and analyze its language as it pertains and adds to the meaning of the poem.

-Picture

can lift image from the page, and, together with the help of his/her students, paint it in its lusturous colors.

- More Language

gives the students the openings of lines.

-Meaning

gives some meanings.

-Spin-off

the teacher and students take something from the poem and evolve a real world activity  from it.