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- Title
"Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes," and ESL: Raymond Carver in the Classroom.
- Authors
Hodge, Matthew
- Abstract
"This article explores several elements of Raymond Carver's oeuvre and its various applications to ESL and remedial English literature, comprehension, and composition classes. Due to the difficulty inherent in teaching ESL students literature featuring advanced verbiage and complex grammatical structure, a modern, minimalist writer like Carver and his condensed, easy-to-read short stories is a natural choice for an instructor of literature. Advanced instruction of dialogue and meaning, themes and symbols, and even the process of editing writing in order to improve meaning and reduce "clutter" can be instructed using Raymond Carver's Collected Stories. Moreover, this article gives instructors certain teaching methods to aid the ESL student on his journey from a superficial understanding of grammar to a deeper understanding of meaningful, literary English.
- Subjects
CARVER, Raymond, 1938-1988; ENGLISH as a foreign language; ENGLISH literature; INSTRUCTIONAL innovations; GRAMMAR
- Publication
Teaching American Literature, 2014, Vol 7, Issue 1/2, p44
- ISSN
2150-3974
- Publication type
Article