Learning language through literature in secondary schools a resource book for teachers of English (Hong Kong University Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references
Worlds of words : authenticity of response and the experience of literary texts in the Hong Kong second-language classroom / Peter Kennedy and Peter Falvey -- Their heads are green and their hands are blue : S3 sail off with The Jumblies / Amanda Tann -- Radio plays / Bob Adamson and Annie Siu-yin Tong -- Using Hong Kong stories in Hong Kong classrooms / Peter Kennedy -- Using Asian poems in English classes : sample lessons / Mike Murphy -- From reading to speaking and writing : dramatizing for the English classroom / Philip Kam-wing Chan -- Little Red Riding Hood in Hong Kong / Peter Kennedy -- 'The course of true love' : bringing romance to the English classroom / Sarah Woodhouse -- Drama and other literary strategies in the teaching and understanding of poetry--approaches to the experience dimension of language use / Peter Falvey -- Imitation as freedom : creative writing in the second-language classroom / Cully Wilcoxon
This is the third in an important series of books for teachers of English. The focus in this book, aimed at secondary schools, is on preparing teachers for the new TOC-oriented English syllabus. All three language dimensions - KNOWLEDGE, INTERPERSONAL, EXPERIENCE - are addressed. In particular, the use of appropriate techniques and materials is demonstrated for those teachers unfamiliar with the EXPERIENCE dimension. The book demonstrates how texts, techniques and tasks used in secondary classrooms can be MOTIVATING, MEANINGFUL AND MEMORABLE. All the ideas in the book have been tried out by local teachers and shown to work. This book is not just for teachers of literature. It is for those who teach the 100,000 school-leavers taking English language examinations every year