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Teaching English Through Poetry To Adolescents

INTRODUCTION
Today, teaching English language assumes many different shapes. Teaching methods vary from teacher to teacher. However, we can find one common feature these methods do share. They all are tinged with communicative competence objectives. Using poetry in the classroom may undoubtedly add to a broad spectrum of classroom activities that communicative approach offers. Poetry being a part of literature offers tremendous potential for ESL/EFL linguistically, culturally and aesthetically particularly in light of the current emphasis on teaching ”communicatively” and the need for a deeper diversion to language learning as put by Stern.
For hundreds of years, the role of literature in the foreign language curriculum was unquestioned. Literature being the highest form of expression was believed to be the sole way by which the students could appreciate language. It was the only way to get acquainted with a nation’s culture and its people. Even though the literary......


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