English Teaching: Practice and Critique
The poem, the reader and the camera: Using camcorders as notebooks for the study of poetry
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, England)
This article explores the potential of using
camcorders when studying poetry in secondary school English
teaching. Drawing on the work of trainee teachers on a Secondary
English and Drama Postgraduate Certificate in Education course in the
UK, it argues that the process of representing poetry as moving image
enables learners to deepen their explicit understanding of how both
kinds of texts work.