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English Teaching in English & American Poetry Classroom

Language can not be separated from culture. Literature in some way reflects the society and culture of the day. Reading literary works encourages students to become broadly aware of the social, political and historical events. Therefore, without the deep understanding of the social and cultural background of the people who speaks English as their mother tongue, the creative English learning is not possible. In the view of the English acquisition through the understanding of culture, English and American poetry may provide a particularly appropriate way of stimulating English acquisition. Because it is an authentic English acquisition material. In the English teaching in English & American poetry classroom, to understand a poem students need to know about the author's life and the cultural or historical information in a poem. In poem-reading activities, students should answer comprehension questions about the meaning of certain words or phrases in the poem. And in post-reading activities, students should paraphrase the meaning of a poem into English and discuss it with other students. The teacher should make the students use English in the classroom to enhance their communicative competence. And the teacher also should devise various ways to set up the conditions for students to interact directly with the target language.