Friday, January 26, 2024

 

A Teaching Technique

Roger Shattuck, "Starting from Scratch," The American Scholar 69.4 (Autumn 2000) 47-56 (at 51-52):
It has taken me forty-plus years of teaching to discover that the best way for me to begin a literature course, undergraduate or graduate, is to have the students copy a passage (or take it from dictation), read it aloud, paraphrase it, and then read the paraphrase aloud.



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