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dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-26T15:27:41Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-26T15:27:41Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Xerri, D. (2016). Creative and personal responses to literary texts in ELT. The Teacher, 8-9(141), 23-25. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 16442059 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/114674 | - |
dc.description.abstract | While there are many benefits to the use of literary texts in English Language Teaching (Xerri & Xerri Agius, 2012), a teacher-centred approach hampers the process of exploiting such texts for language learning purposes. Effective pedagogy places learners at the centre of the learning process by giving primacy to their creative and personal responses. This is in line with Stevens and McGuinn’s idea (2004) that ‘Perhaps the cardinal rule of effective, adventurous English teaching is to recognise, develop and celebrate what is already there in the classroom’ (p. 6). They maintain that ‘A great part of the skill of teaching English lies in fostering the appropriate culture of the classroom to give credibility to students’ insights and experiences, and in making creative connections with and between them’ (Stevens & McGuinn, 2004, pp. 10-11). When learners are asked to engage with literary texts in the classroom, it is important that their personal response is foregrounded and that creative approaches to such texts are given primacy. Teachers who exert complete control over the generation of meaning inhibit learners from truly engaging with texts. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | REJ Foundation | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | English language -- Study and teaching | en_GB |
dc.subject | English literature -- Study and teaching | en_GB |
dc.subject | Poetry -- Study and teaching | en_GB |
dc.title | Creative and personal responses to literary texts in ELT | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | The Teacher | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Xerri, Daniel | - |
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