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Creative writing pedagogy for world Englishes students
Author(s) -
GEOKLIN LIM SHIRLEY
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/weng.12148
Subject(s) - world englishes , contradiction , creative writing , sociology , pedagogy , poetry , linguistics , literature , art , philosophy
Noting the contradiction between the goals in English language teaching and creative writing pedagogy in teaching ESL/EFL/world Englishes students, the paper argues for a greater emphasis on parole instead of langue to generate increased innovative writing. It begins with a critique of a major creative writing dogma, ‘Show, don't tell,' and discusses a range of models, prompts and strategies in which ‘show and tell' assignments that also encourage and incorporate students' world Englishes registers in their crafting of poems.