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dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-28T07:03:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-28T07:03:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Xerri, D. (2017). English teaching confessional. English Teaching Professional, 111, 13-14. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 13625276 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116007 | - |
dc.description.abstract | While browsing the poetry section of the Harbor Book Co, a bookshop on the island of Bainbridge in Puget Sound, USA, I happened upon Simon Armitage’s Walking Home, an account of how the poet sustained his two week-long trek along the Pennine Way in northern England by doing a poetry reading every evening. I had wanted to read this book for some time, but owing to the distractions provided by so many other books, I had not yet managed to get my hands on a copy. So when I came across it in Bainbridge while on a day trip from Seattle, I started reading it straightaway. The bookshop was immersed in silence, and I thought I was the only customer until I became aware of a woman’s soft voice in the adjoining children’s section, which happened to be at the very back of the shop. Looking up from my book, I saw a woman seated on a tiny chair with a young girl at her feet listening to her read. As I peered through the doorway, they seemed unaware of my voyeuristic presence. A sense of déjà vu overwhelmed me as I remembered witnessing a similar scene whilst taking the London Underground to Heathrow Airport a few years back: I was once again mesmerised by the simple act of an adult reading to a child. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd. | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | 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.subject | English teachers | en_GB |
dc.title | English teaching confessional | 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 | non peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | English Teaching Professional | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Xerri, Daniel | - |
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