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Mind Map by eyrahzuraidi, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by eyrahzuraidi
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Topic 4B: Principles of
Selection and Adaptation
of Poems
- Selection of Poems for Young Learners
- Purposes of Using Poetry
- provides enjoyment
- helps to develop confidence in using English
- encourages the use of
correct stress and intonation
in English speech
- help to develop interest in words and word usage
in new ways to achieve certain effects
- helps to introduce new vocabulary and word order
- present the use of ordinary words in new ways helps to
sharpen pupils' senses and appreciation of language
- helps pupils to remember and memorize them easily
- help to expand students' knowledge about the world
- help students to identify with people and situations
- express moods familiar to pupils
- give insights into pupils and their feelings
- provides enjoyment
- Criteria for Poetry Selection
- Learner Levels
- suit students' level in terms of text difficulty and language
complexity (vocabulary,structure)
- suit students' level in terms of text difficulty and language
complexity (vocabulary,structure)
- Cultural Considerations
- cultural biasness
- sensitivity to the impact of culturally-induced behavior
- familiarity to learners' background knowledge
- use of words or expression which are perceived as inappriopriate
- cultural biasness
- Students' Interest
- prefer narrative poems over lyric poems as
compared to free verse and haiku
- humorous poems, poems about animals and
enjoyable familiar experiences
- limericks are children's favored form.
- prefer poems that have pronounced sound patterns
of all kinds, but especially enjoy poems that rhyme
- prefer poems with regular, distinctive beats (rhythm)
- not easy to understand the elements of
imagery and figurative language
- prefer narrative poems over lyric poems as
compared to free verse and haiku
- Other Considerations
- rhyme, humorous narrative, and content based on familiar experiences
- enthusiasm declines as children get older
- favor contemporary over traditional poems
- use of minimal complex imagery and subtle emotion
- lively poems with exciting meters and rhythms
- should emphasize the sounds of language and encourage play with words
- allow children to expand their imaginations
- should tell simple stories and introduce stirring scenes of action
- should not have been written down to children's supposed level
- allow children to interpret, to feel and to put themselves into the poems
- should delight children, say something to them, enhance their egos,
strike happy recollections, tickle their funny bones, encourage them
to explore
- should be good enough to stand up under repeated readings
- rhyme, humorous narrative, and content based on familiar experiences
- Learner Levels
- Purposes of Using Poetry
- Techniques
- marching to rhymes
- listening to rhymes
- rhyming cloze
- poem pictures
- word endings
- poem performances
- poetry play
- finger poems and action poems
- poem posters
- poem puzzles
- poetry and prose
- word match
- marching to rhymes
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