Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?

This article focuses on a Canadian poetry course that was offered in the undergraduate English language course at Universidade Federal de Goiás, pointing out the factors that were taken into consideration to formulate the course program. In the second part of the article, a reading produced by the s...

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Main Author: Dilys Karen Rees
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2012-02-01
Series:The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/8619
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spelling doaj-6fccf8cff06342d8a4be688b9dec38692020-11-24T23:16:15ZengPontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloThe ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes0102-70772318-71152012-02-013216339Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?Dilys Karen ReesThis article focuses on a Canadian poetry course that was offered in the undergraduate English language course at Universidade Federal de Goiás, pointing out the factors that were taken into consideration to formulate the course program. In the second part of the article, a reading produced by the students of a poem by the Modernist poet Margaret Avison (Avison, 2005) is presented and discussed showing the strong points and the difficulties they had in its construction. The students’ opinions are analyzed using Gadamer’s (2000) philosophical hermeneutics in terms of the cultural horizon in which the poem was written and the cultural horizon of the students reading the poem focusing on the familiar and the strange. The contrast between referential texts and representational texts suggested by Widdowson (1992) is also focused on.https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/8619literatureteachingforeign languagepoetry
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title Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?
title_short Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?
title_full Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?
title_fullStr Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?
title_full_unstemmed Canadian Poetry and the Brazilian Students: What Are the Challenges?
title_sort canadian poetry and the brazilian students: what are the challenges?
publisher Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
series The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes
issn 0102-7077
2318-7115
publishDate 2012-02-01
description This article focuses on a Canadian poetry course that was offered in the undergraduate English language course at Universidade Federal de Goiás, pointing out the factors that were taken into consideration to formulate the course program. In the second part of the article, a reading produced by the students of a poem by the Modernist poet Margaret Avison (Avison, 2005) is presented and discussed showing the strong points and the difficulties they had in its construction. The students’ opinions are analyzed using Gadamer’s (2000) philosophical hermeneutics in terms of the cultural horizon in which the poem was written and the cultural horizon of the students reading the poem focusing on the familiar and the strange. The contrast between referential texts and representational texts suggested by Widdowson (1992) is also focused on.
topic literature
teaching
foreign language
poetry
url https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/8619
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