COD 2017 - G897

Performance poetry: When words jump off the page

Language and Literature teachers, poetry lovers

1 sessions, start: 22-May

Course detail

Year: 2017
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Claudia Ferradas PhD
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 400.00
Non affiliate
ARS 400.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 22 May 2017 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Claudia Ferradas

Dr. Claudia Ferradas is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she got her first degree as a teacher of English at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”. She holds an MA in Education and Professional Development from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in English Studies from the University of Nottingham, UK. She is an experienced presenter and ELT author who travels the world as a teacher educator. She often works as a consultant for the British Council and Trinity College London. She is also a presenter for Oxford University Press and is an Oxford Teachers’ Academy Trainer.
In Argentina, she has taught language and literature at the Instituto de Enseñanza Superior en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, Buenos Aires, where she was also “Regente del nivel superior”. She teaches on the MA programme in Literatures in English at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza. She coordinates the literature and cultural programmes at ESSARP.
In the UK, Claudia has been a Visiting Fellow and research supervisor at the School of Languages, Leeds Metropolitan University, and is now a member of the NILE (Norwich Institute for Language Education) Advisory Board and the Extensive Reading Foundation committee.
Claudia has co-chaired the Oxford Conference on the Teaching of Literature on five occasions and has also worked as Project Manager for the Penguin Active Readers Teacher Support Programme. She has also taught on the MA programme in TEFL at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
She is a member of the editorial committee of several journals: AJAL (Argentine Journal of Applied Linguistics); Revista Interdisciplinar de Formación Docente Kimün (Instituto de Formación Docente Continua, San Luis, Argentina); Conexión, Revista de Investigaciones y Propuestas Educativas (Instituto de Educación Superior N° 28 “Olga Cossettini”, Rosario, Argentina) and CLELE Journal (Children’s Literature in English Language Education).
Language and Literature teachers, poetry lovers
• To challenge the preconception that poetry is difficult and restricted to the printed page, meant to be analysed academically.
• To explore a multi-art perspective to go beyond the poetry canon into alternative popular forms such as songs, videos and performance poetry.
• To explore the potential of such texts for language and literature teaching.
Poetry engages learners’ emotions, encourages language awareness and provides opportunities for memorisation of new language. It is also a fun way of practising pronunciation and intonation patterns, particularly when it goes back to its oral origins. Let’s explore the potential of poems which leave the page to go on stage or on screen (such as song lyrics and performance poetry) to enrich language development and intercultural awareness in the language and literature class.
- The facilitator will introduce several examples of song lyrics and performance poetry which participants will be invited to discuss in terms of their potential for the classroom.
- Participants will be encouraged to device activities to exploit such texts in class.
Novak, J. (2011) Live Poetry: An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi
Selection of poems by Patience Agbabi, Francesca Beard, Michael Rosen, Kate Tempest and Benjamin Zephaniah
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