8Teaching Strategies 1. Take Five Procedure: In pairs‚ students take five minutes to orally review a concept and present it to the class‚ usually at the beginning or end of a class period. Purpose • Briefly consolidate or reinforce learning. Payoff Students will: • develop a strategy that can be used to review content material in all areas. • share responsibility for teaching and reviewing with each other. • “talk” their way into meaning and understanding through verbal rehearsal. • perceive
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Chapter 1 What is Literature? A. What is Literature? Generally speaking‚ “literature” is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works‚ but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination‚ including works of poetry‚ drama‚ fiction‚ and nonfiction. Literature represents a people‚ culture‚ tradition and language. It shares great experiences. Through Literature‚ we can learn about poems‚ stories‚ and plays. When we discuss about
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English Literature Students should study English Literature because literature is part of our cultural heritage‚ literary works can be entertaining‚ beautiful‚ funny‚ or tragic. They can convey profundity of thought‚ for instance like 《Macbeth》shows that the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints. Each literature has a themes that the author wants to show. Also students learn a lot of history and culture from the English literature. It takes them to new places
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COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia
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CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE * Formal/Stylistic characteristics Juxtaposition‚ irony‚ comparisons‚ and satire are important elements found in modernist writing. Modernist authors use impressionism and other devices to emphasize the subjectivity of reality‚ and they see omniscient narration and fixed narrative points of view as providing a false sense of objectivity. They also employ discontinuous narratives and fragmented plot structures.]Modernist works are also often reflexive
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History of English language and literature in India starts with the advent of East India Company in India. It all started in the summers of 1608 when Emperor Jahangir‚ in the courts of Moguls‚ welcomed Captain William Hawkins‚ Commander of British Naval Expedition Hector. It was India’s first tryst with an Englishman and English. Jahangir later allowed Britain to open a permanent port and factory on the special request of King James IV that was conveyed by his ambassador Sir Thomas Roe. English were here
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Postmodernism in English literature. 1. Postmodernism in the English literature of the last decades of the 20th century. 2. John Fowles’s novels as an example of postmodern writing. In the 1960s the cultural layers changed and grew confused; the emergence of the mass media and the technological revolution changed the nature of culture and publishing. Here started the era of postmodernism‚ manifesting the philosophical‚ cultural‚ and political instability of the contemporary world‚ and the difficulty
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natural growth of the English language and literature. The Old English or Anglo-Saxon had been a purely Germanic speech‚ with a complicated grammar and a full set of inflections. For three hundred years following the battle of Hastings this native tongue was driven from the king’s court and the courts of law‚ from Parliament‚ school‚ and university. During all this time there were two languages spoken in England. Norman French was the birth-tongue of the upper classes and English of the lower. When
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------------------------------------------------- English literature From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia William Shakespeare English literature is the literature written in the English language‚ including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example‚ Robert Burns was Scottish‚ James Joyce was Irish‚ Joseph Conrad was Polish‚ Dylan Thomas was Welsh‚ Thomas Pynchon is American‚ V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad‚ and Vladimir Nabokov was Russian‚ but all
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REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE The review of the literature for this study focuses on procedures used to identify teaching and learning styles and what effect a match between the two has on student learning outcomes and evaluation of instructors. The review focuses on a number of different instruments used to identify teaching and learning styles. The chapter begins with a definition of learning styles‚ teaching styles‚ and matching‚ followed by the findings of researchers using various
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