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Cognitive appeal as a criterion in the choice of teaching materials

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Janczukowicz K.
Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching
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2011
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issue 8
155-166
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he paper presents an attempt to provide a criterion for potentially useful materials in second-language teaching. That criterion is “cognitive appeal”, a notion introduced by Ryszard Wenzel in The Education of a Language Teacher, characterising those texts that are attractive for students because of a chance to expand their cognitive structures or owing to an artistic experience. The presence or absence of this feature is analysed on three texts and lessons conducted with their use. The texts are Robert Frost’s “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening”, Alan Seeger’s “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”. The conclusion of the discussion is that, for a poem to be potentially good teaching material, it should not only provide an opportunity for artistic experience and in this way bear the feature of cognitive appeal but its lexical and structural content should be well adopted to suit the level of English that learners represent.
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