(1348) MODEL-POEMS AS SHAPERS OF STUDENTS' POETIC EXPRESSION IN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM

摘要

Poetry writing in elementary classroom is а very appealing, but complex process that includes manyvariables related to students' age, their perception of the world, the way they respond to the stimulusthat is coming from the outer world, and the way they reflect on and experience the world aroundthem. As with the other forms of creative writing, poetry writing presupposes creative uses of languageunder certain circumstances that support the unconscious process of creating and, at the same time,the conscious state of mind when the student-poet is revising a previously written text. Teachers inelementary classroom find the process of motivating creative poetic expression of students verychallenging and difficult to be achieved with the majority of the students in the class. Therefore, theymay use certain strategies, such as using model-poems that can ease this process of creation. Theaim of this paper is to present the results of an experimental study of the influence of model-poems onproduction of poetic expression of students in elementary classroom. The sample of the experimentalstudy with duration of 3 months consists of approximately 300 students from third to fifth grade inelementary classroom (8-11 year old students) and 15 teachers from the Republic of Macedonia. Theresults of the study show that the production of poetic sentences by elementary school students ispositively influenced by exposing them to model-poems and this is the case especially with youngerstudents.