As part of an ethnographic study of a secondary English Language Arts classroom, one teacher took a critical translingual approach to curriculum and instruction, encouraging students to engage in translanguaging and to explore the intersections of language with power and identity. The larger study's central question was, what does participation in…

The Post Graduate Teachers who teach English as a second language to Higher Secondary Classes that is 11th and 12th grades need to cultivate a good sense of appreciation for poetry. They must have an inherent thirst for reading poetry aloud and competence to elucidate the essential characteristics of poetry. A study was launched to understand the…

Focuses upon some poetry of peace written in wartime and discusses the relevancy of a unit of such poetry to the concerns of modern youth. (SW)

Discusses the ways that high school English-as-a-Second-Language teachers might ask students to translate into English their own original poetry written in their original languages. Questions the "English Only" rule often proscribed for such classes. Describes how one teacher succeeded in having students translate their own poems. (HB)

Intended primarily as a practical guide for teachers of English as a foreign language, this book is designed to meet some of the needs which may arise when English teachers work with poetry and offers some practical suggestions for using the book. It is based on the use of poetry in language learning and provides a wide range of activities…