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Title: | ‘Living in a house without mirrors’ : poetry’s cachet and student engagement |
Authors: | Xerri, Daniel |
Keywords: | Poetry -- Study and teaching English poetry -- Study and teaching Second language acquisition -- Study and teaching English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Publisher: | University of Warsaw. Department of British Literature |
Citation: | Xerri, D. (2016). 'Living in a house without mirrors': Poetry's cachet and student engagement. Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 271-286. |
Abstract: | This article examines the contentious proposition that poetry has for the past few decades been experiencing a crisis, especially when it comes to student engagement. By means of the results of a study conducted in an English as a second language context, it explores teachers’ and students’ beliefs, attitudes and practices in relation to poetry. This article shows that the very discourse used to talk about poetry is a direct reflection of how much cachet it is ascribed in the classroom. It questions whether this inflation of cachet is responsible for the fact that poetry is not perceived as a genre that teachers and students opt to read for personal pleasure. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/115108 |
ISSN: | 08605734 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - CenELP |
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