Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
This is a teacher’s resource book tailor-made for EFL teachers who want to bring Shakespeare into their classes. It includes forty innovative lesson plans with ready-to-use worksheets, hands-on games and student-oriented activities that help EFL learners achieve higher levels of English proficiency and cultural sensitivity. By introducing the plots, characters, and language arts employed in Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, the book conveys English grammatical rules and aspects like a walk in the garden; complicated rhetorical features such as stress, meter, rhyme, homonymy, irony, simile, metaphor, euphemism, parallelism, unusual word order, etc. are taught through meaning-driven games and exercises. Besides developing EFL learners’ English language skills, it also includes practical extended tasks that enhance higher-order thinking skills, encouraging reflection on the central themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
| Autor: | Lau, Leung Che Miriam Tso, Wing Bo Anna |
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| ISBN: | 9789811005800 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 149 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer Singapore |
| Veröffentlicht: | 05.10.2016 |
| Untertitel: | The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays |
| Schlagworte: | Drama Education ESL Students English Language Education English Proficiency Innovative Lesson Plans Language Arts Language Skills Ready-to-Use Shakespeare's Plays Student-oriented Activities |
Ms. Miriam Lau Leung-che is a lecturer at Hong Kong Community College, Polytechnic University, where she teaches academic English. She has published papers in Shakespeare Review and Nordlit, and she is currently doing her doctoral studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. Dr. Anna Tso is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she heads the Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics, leads the English Cultural Literacy team, and directs the Digital Humanities Research Centre. She is currently awarded a government research grant for improving university students' academic writing at the Open University of Hong Kong.