Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

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Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students

The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays

Literacy Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Language teaching and learning

Authors: Miriam Leung Che Lau, Anna Wing Bo Tso

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Language: English

Published by: Springer

Published on: 23rd September 2016

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9789811005824


Teacher’s Resource Book for EFL Teachers

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.

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