Glasceta Honeyghan

Poetry as instructional text in a community college course

Its effectiveness on students' attitudes toward poetry and on their Reading and Writing skills

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Produktbeschreibung

The tendency of many educators to use a singlecommunicative genre, usually prose, to instruct hasgone on for decades.This quantitative study exploredthe effects of poetry as instructional text on agroup of community college students' attitude towardpoetry and on their reading and writing scores. Thestudy--including discussions on compensating for aninsufficient background in poetry,discussions forteaching poetry, and the selection and sources ofappropriate poems--compared students who receivedpoetry as instructional material and students whoreceived traditionally organized prose both narrativeand non-narrative instruction aimed toward the sameobjective.The results show there is not an apparentsignificant difference in group means for allattitude scales. However, the posttest mean attitudescale for poetry was significantly higher than thepre-test mean when both groups were pooled together,and the increase for the experimental group wasslightly higher than those in the control group. Theanalysis shows that there is potential for meaningfulliteracy development associated with the use ofpoetry as the communicative genre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9783843369602
• ISBN-10: 3843369607
• Artikelnr.: 33763299

Autorenporträt

Glasceta Honeyghan is an adjunct professor of Literacy Educationat Florida Atlantic University. She is the author of four novels,a collection of poetry, and articles in professional journalssuch as Language Arts and Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.Dr. Honeyghan writes children's books and directs a voluntaryfamily literacy project.