Generally, learning poetry has some functions which deal with oral language development, student learning style expansion, world engagement with its content, and cultural awareness exploration.
Our governments should make compulsory - learning literature from all language study programs.
This article argues that learning poetry can be a medium to develop students’ teaching skill in sharing the knowledge independently and creatively.
Kavishala team did research and survey, which shows Literary works, in this case poems, are able to be used as materials to develop many skills of those who study them. Based on its nature as dynamic materials, poetry can be used not only for improving students’ oral skill but also for improving students’ teaching skill especially for sharing the material.
To sum up, there are some important practices that need to be done:
- giving a freedom for choosing a poem that a student really likes,
- Having a commitment to achieve the goal of the course together by having an open discussion,
- Involving independency and creativity of students
- Accommodating four styles of students’ learning.
In a nutshell, lecturer can have some literary works including poetry as a material for future teachers due to its benefits, namely: improving teaching skills through its real practices, gaining students’ competence for its language acquisition, exploring students’ conscience and compassion.
Learning literary works has a lot of functions for students’ life, even for formal one that is to develop teaching skill for students of education program.
[LEARNING POETRY AS A STRATEGY TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ TEACHING SKILLS]
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