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Title: An integrated approach to teaching/ studying postcolonial poetry

 

Vol. 6, 2019, pp. 18-32.

DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v06.002

 

Author: N. Belgin Elbir

About the author: Professor N. Belgin Elbir, PhD is professor and chair in the Department of English Language and Literature at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey. She received her BA from Ankara University, Department of English Language and Literature, her MA from Hacettepe University and her PhD from Ankara University.  She worked at Ankara University, Faculty of Letters as lecturer and department chair before she retired in 2012 and started to work at Atılım University where she was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences until 2017. Professor Elbir’s main area of research is English Literature, focusing on the novel, poetry, literature and language teaching, women’s writing and literary translation.

e-mail: belgin.elbir@atilim.edu.tr

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2506-9819

 

Citation (APA style): Elbir, N. B. (2019). An integrated approach to teaching/ studying postcolonial poetry. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 6, 18-32. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2019.v06.002

 

Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2019/vol6/SILC_2019_Vol%206_018-032_15.pdf

 

Abstract: This article presents a discussion on teaching/studying postcolonial poetry in English as part of a course on modern and contemporary poetry in a foreign language literature classroom at university level. The argument in the article is based on ways and benefits of using an integrated approach that pays attention to, and puts emphasis on, fostering students’ literary and language competence to meet their academic and occupational needs. The particular poems chosen to illustrate the argument are by Grace Nichols and John Agard, two contemporary immigrant poets from the Caribbean, whose work can be regarded as highly representative of the characteristic features and major concerns of much postcolonial poetry produced in Britain by poets from former colonies.

Keywords: Foreign language literature, an integrated approach, postcolonial poetry, Grace Nichols, John Agard

 

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