Teaching Shakespeare to ESL students
Subtitle: the study of language arts in four major plays
By: Leung Che Miriam Lau, Wing Bo Anna Tso
Contributors: Tso, Wing Bo Anna, author
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9789811005800
Subjects: Foreign speakers; Study and teaching; English language
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.