WHY NOT POETRY：AN EFFICIENT PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH IN CET CLASS

摘要

Poetry, the use of language, has its powerful expressiveness.Poetry can be treated as enjoyable authentic materials in College English class because of the six merits: memorability,rhythmicality, recitability, diversity, recreation and interaction.To adapt poetry teaching to facilitate language learning has therefore become a reasonable goal. This paper lists five procedures and cites quite a few poems from College English textbooks as examples to adopt poetry as an effective language learning activity in College English Teaching (CET).