Literary Terms and Definitions B. Literary Terms and Definitions: B This page is under perpetual construction! It was last updated 14 March, 2014. This list is meant to assist, not intimidate. Use it as a touchstone for important concepts and vocabulary that we will cover during the term. Vocabulary terms are listed alphabetically. BAADE SETAEE (Persian, "Wine Prizing"): A genre of Persian poetry extolling the virtues of wine, carousing, and celebration. BABUIN: A fanciful monster, silly creature, or a leering face drawn in the margins of a medieval manuscript. BACHIC FOOT: A three-syllable foot of poetry consisting of a light stress followed by two heavy stresses.
BACHIC METER: Poetry in which each foot is a three-syllable foot consisting of three heavy stresses. BACHIUS: Another term for a bachic foot. BACK-FORMATION: (1) The process of creating a new word when speakers (often mistakenly) remove an affix or other morpheme from a longer word. BEAT: A heavy stress or accent in a line of poetry. Eslwriting.org — Teaching students how to write their dreams. TEFLtastic classics. Taboo topics games (TEFLtastic classics Part 21) Cultural training, loads of useful real-life speaking, and in one version a great way to contrast tenses.
Students rank some questions and/ or topics from 1 point for great even with complete strangers to 5 points for completely taboo. They then ask each other … Continue reading The Simplest Responses Game (TEFLtastic classics Part 20) This is one of the games that I use most of all and it’s only taken me this long to write about it because I couldn’t think of a good name for it. I think this name really sums up … Continue reading Key words card games (TEFLtastic classics Part 19) This is another game which will feature prominently in my upcoming article in EtP magazine on getting students to use more complex language. Longer phrases card games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 12 reprised) Random pelmanism (TEFLtastic classics Part 18) Chain writing/ Consequences (TEFLtastic classics Part 17) TEFL dice games (TEFLtastic Classics Part 16)
Teaching Tips | Global. Writing prompts. Ideas & Ingredients. Untitled Document. Volume V- 2000 Story Grammars and Oral Fluency by Dafne Gonzalez Dafne Gonzalez is Associate Professor of English at Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela. She is involved in the supervision and education of elementary and high school teachers. Her research interests include reading, methodology, evaluation, and content-based instruction.
She holds a master's degree in applied linguistics. "No queremos gramática, queremos hablar inglés! Promoting oral fluency in EFL contexts is a difficulty faced by teachers at all levels, but it is more evident in elementary and high schools where class size is usually large. What Are Story Grammars?
Just as a grammar is a way of describing language, so a story grammar is a way of describing a story. Benefits Shown in Recent Research Objectives The goal of the program was to motivate teachers to use story grammars in their classes, to help students develop oral fluency in English while reinforcing the other skills of the language. Figure 1.