A STUDENT-CENTERED APPROACH TO TEACHING POETRY

Year 2024, Volume: 8/1, 1 - 10, 07.11.2023

Anissa Sbouı

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to identify the substantiality of the student-centered approach in teaching poetry at faculties, and demonstrate the learners’ direct response to it. Then, there will be a move to one casestudy; the practical part is charged with an insightful analysis of Anne Sexton’s “Music Swims back to Me”. The design of the course is meant to encompass diverse steps, ranging from incorporating data show, video recording through ‘spoken poetry’1, as well as handouts. The foremost figure of confessional poetry of the mid-twentieth century has been selected to show the efficiency of student-centered method in deciphering verse texts by spotting the light on the pre, while and post reading along
with the different challenges learners can face and the benefits of this approach in their critical thinking skills.

Keywords

student-centred, teacher centred methods, spoken poetry performance, Tunisia

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