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Beteiligte: Anokye, Akua Duku
In: Journal of Basic Writing, 13, 1994, 2, S. 46-60
veröffentlicht:
City University of New York
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Umfang: 46-60
ISSN: 0147-1635
veröffentlicht in: Journal of Basic Writing
Sprache: Englisch
Kollektion: sid-55-col-jstoras14
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<p>Today's English language teachers face broad cultural and racial differences between themselves and their students which negate old assumptions about teaching and learning. Teaching is about choices, making them and giving them. This essay discusses the narrative as a means for establishing an environment where students ultimately will have choices. Narrative in the context of learning language in general and writing in particular opens the students to shared contexts and culture. A pedagogy based on storytelling encourages the students to understand and appreciate their classmates' cultural and racial diversity while helping them become active participants in the broader conversation of the literate community. In this way students develop practical skills in utilizing a variety of rhetorical styles and acquire intercultural understanding and appreciation. The three-to four-week exercise discussed here enables the teacher to achieve educational goals of interaction with the oral and written text, while achieving a sense of community in the classroom.</p>