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Leung Che Miriam Lau, Wing Bo Anna Tso
Springer Singapore, 2017
Springer Singapore, 2017
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Lau, L. C. M., & Tso, W. B. A. (2017). Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students - The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays. Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4
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Lau, Leung Che Miriam, and Wing Bo Anna Tso. Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students - The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays. Springer Singapore, 2017.
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Lau, Leung Che Miriam, and Wing Bo Anna Tso. Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students - The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays. Springer Singapore, 2017, doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4.
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@book{leung2017a,
title = {Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students - The Study of Language Arts in Four Major Plays},
year = {2017},
publisher = {Springer Singapore},
doi = {10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4},
author = {Lau, Leung Che Miriam and Tso, Wing Bo Anna}
}
Overview
Authors:
- Leung Che Miriam Lau
- Wing Bo Anna Tso
- Provides a preface on 'Shakespeare and the teaching of language' by Prof. Michael Dobson, Director of the Shakespeare Institute, The University of Birmingham, UK
- Gives an introduction on "Chinese and Hong Kong Shakespeare by Dr. Otto Heim, School of English, The University of Hong Kong
- Includes an overview of Shakespeare's life, times and work
- Covers teaching ideas and learning materials excerpted from a drama education project commissioned by Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s CPCE Fund
About this book
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.