Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays
Published on 15. June 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XXXII, 149 pages
978-981-10-9200-8 (ISBN)
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.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
46 farbige Abbildungen, 23 s/w Abbildungen
XXXII, 149 p. 69 illus., 46 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-10-9200-8 (9789811092008)
DOI
10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Leung Che Miriam Lau | Wing Bo Anna Tso
Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students
The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays
Book
10/2016
Springer
€117.69
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Persons
Ms. Miriam Lau Leung-che is a lecturer at Hong Kong Community College, Polytechnic University, where she teaches academic English. She has published papers in Shakespeare Review and Nordlit, and she is currently doing her doctoral studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.
Dr. Anna Tso is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she heads the Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics, leads the English Cultural Literacy team, and directs the Digital Humanities Research Centre. She is currently awarded a government research grant for improving university students' academic writing at the Open University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Anna Tso is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she heads the Master of Arts in Applied English Linguistics, leads the English Cultural Literacy team, and directs the Digital Humanities Research Centre. She is currently awarded a government research grant for improving university students' academic writing at the Open University of Hong Kong.
Content
Foreword.- Introduction: Global Shakespeare.- Introduction: Asian and Hong Kong Shakespeare.- A Brief Overview of Shakespeare's Life, Times and Work.- The Taming of the Shrew.- Section 2: The Merchant of Venice.- Romeo and Juliet.- Macbeth.- Glossary.