TEACHING POETRY WITH MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS: TENNYSON'S "THE LADY OF SHALLOT"

Edebiyatın yabancı dil öğretimine içerik olarak uygunluğu yıllardır tartışma konusu olmuştur. Son zamanlarda edebi metinlerin, iletişimsel dil öğretiminin çerçevesi içerisinde öğretim materyali olarak etkili olabilecekleri araştırmacılar tarafından savunulmaktadır. Bu çalışma üç bölümden oluşmaktadır. Birincisi, çoklu ortamlı öğretim materyallerine vurgu yaparak edebi metinlerin iletişimsel yabancı dil s1n1flarmda içerik olarak kullanımını tartışmaktadır. İkincisi, görsel ve işitsel materyal kullanarak aday İngilizce öğretmenlerine yönelik Tennyson'un The Lady 0f Shallot isimli şiirinin öğretimi için örnek bir ders planı sunmaktır. Son olarak, araştırmacı tarafından kurulan bir internet günlüğü (blog) kullanılarak toplanan, öğrencilerin ders hakkındaki düşüncelerini sunmaktır.

TEACHING POETRY WITH MULTIMEDIA MATERIALS: TENNYSON’S "THE LADY OF SHALLOT"

Despite the contention regarding its suitability as foreign language teaching content, literature has begun to regain its popularity as many researchers argue that it can be viable communicative material. The current study consists of three parts. First, it discusses how literature can be used as content in communicative EFL classrooms, with particular emphasis on the use of multimedia materials. Second, it presents suggested lesson plan for approaching Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shallot by making use of the available images and music with the aim of developing the language skills of group of Turkish prospective EFL teachers while they try to understand the poem. Finally, it presents some of these students’ views on the lesson, which they made as contributions to course blog set up by the course instructor/researcher.

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