JOHN DREW'S INTRODUCTION TO CAMBRIDGE POETRY WORKSHOP AT HENAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY

作     者：John Drew 

作者机构：Henan Normal University 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics》 (中国应用语言学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2005年第28卷第5期

页      面：90-91,89页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：河南师范大学 诗歌 剑桥 项目 简介 

摘      要：This introduction hopes to make clear how simple and rewarding it is to teach (yourself or others) English by writing poems. There are two big surprises in any poetry workshop course. The students are sure it is impossible for them to write poems, especially in English. And the language teacher feels totally inadequate to run such a course, assuming it is impossible without a great deal of academic information about literature, especially English literature. Just try it once (you can choose one of the exercises suggested at the end of this book) and if you are not pleasantly surprised, then I will eat my words and walk the length of the Great Wall (both ways)! [HJ]The explanation about how to run a poetry workshop takes up some three pages. The rest of the book is made up of poems which illustrate the delightful results you can expect to get when you ask your students to do the same thing. The poems are written by graduates but the same exercises can be used as fruitfully in schools as in colleges. If the students know only some simple English words, let them write some simple English poems. Those who know only Chinese should write their poems in Chinese. It could even be the best part of their education. [HJ]