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Pedagogical stylistics as a tool in the classroom: an investigation of EFL undergraduate students' ability in analyzing poetic language
Eman Adil Jaafar1, Fatimah Khudair Hassoon2.
This research paper draws on applying the tools of pedagogical stylistics in teaching literature in
particular poetry to English as a foreign language (EFL) undergraduate Iraqi students. The language
of literature is rich with social context, exquisite deviant forms, and vocabulary. This paper aims at
examining to what extent pedagogical stylistics can be helpful in increasing students' literary
awareness. In addition, to examine how it can help them to interpret and analyze selected poems
that have been chosen for them to achieve this goal. For the purpose of gathering the required data
a pre-test and a post-test are conducted. Verdonk's (2013) approach is adopted in teaching stylistic
tools to the students. The participants were (40) second-year students of the academic year 2018-
2017 from University of Baghdad, Iraq. Moreover, a questionnaire is distributed to know students'
opinions about studying stylistics. The final results proved that (1-) pedagogical stylistics tools are
of great significance to pay heed to the language of poetry or literary language in general, (2-)the
questionnaire shows that most agreed on studying stylistics in the classroom. Thus, this study highly
recommends that teachers of literary subjects should focus on stylistic tools in teaching literary
texts.
Affiliation:
- University of Baghdad, Iraq
- University of Baghdad, Iraq
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