Using Intercultural Rhetoric to Teach Poetry: An Innovative Reading Task to Build Students’ Critical Thinking
Date
2020-03-01Metadata
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Intercultural rhetoric (IR)—the study of written discourse between and among individuals with different
cultural
backgrounds
(Connor,
2011)—in the
teaching
context
described
in this
article
deals
with
the
treatment
of poetry
as written
discourse for
English
for
Academic
Purposes
(EAP)
students.
As
readers
of
specific
poems,
the
students
were
asked
to
interpret
the
poet’s
rhetoric.
This
activity
requires
critical
thinking
(CT), which
is challenging
because
students
have
to
go “beyond
the
level
of
literal
comprehension
to
a comprehension
of the
more
complex
and subtle features
of a literary
work’
(Lim
& Tan,
1990, p. 1). In other
words, the
students may
experience
difficulties
with
this
task
if they
do
not
think
critically
while reading
poems.
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- LSP-Jurnal Ilmiah Dosen [7356]