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... Reading comprehension …………………………………………………….………… 11II.2.1. Reading comprehension and its roles in language learning………….……………11II.2.2. Reader and the text…………………………… ………………………………………11II.2 .3. ... text…………………………… ………………………………………11II.2 .3. Students difficulties with reading ……………………….…………………………12II .3. Literature and Reading ………………………… ……………………………………. 13 ... 6II.1.4.2 Literature in the ESL classroom……………………….……………….…………… 9II.1. 4.2.1.Poetry in the ESL classroom………………………………………….………… 9II.1. 4.2.2 .Short story and its advantages in language classroom…………….…………...

... at the end of each lesson using short stories and poems in reading class. The data collected then is analyzed and based on the findings, techniques in teaching reading comprehension integrating ... hours for reading skills per week. Within each class, normally 45 minutes long, they learn and practice reading skills such as skimming, scanning, reading for main ideas or for specific information, ... and in reading comprehension teaching in particular. The students under investigation were in their second term of the second year. They are between 19 and 22 including both male and female students...

... be independent from the text.□ Others………………………………………………………………f. The activities I like most in post – reading phase□ creating the end of the poem or short story □ changing the poem into a short ... figurative meanings in the poem.□ I think understanding the content is enough.□ This activity is interesting, we can look at different features of the event.□ It is helpful, we can think in our ... questionnaires for students at HPUQuestionnaire No1Questionnaires on the students attitude toward literary texts1. Rank the following genres of literature according to your preference and give the...

... 11 Integrating short stories and Integrating short stories and poems in developing the poems in developing the reading skills for 2 reading skills for 2ndnd year year students in Haiphong ... critical reading and writingLiterature and reading:  The reader and the textLinks between reading skills and literary skills Efferent reading and aesthetic reading  It is applicable to integrate ... 8Results and Findings Results:Pointed out that integrating short stories and poems in reading class makes the lesson more enjoyable and helps enhance students reading skills. Most students...

... toBrownies Short Stories for Students, Volume 25 11 We Welcome Your SuggestionsThe editorial staff of Short Stories for Students welcomes your comments and ideas. Readerswhowishtosuggestshortstoriestoappearinfuture ... . . . . . . 325 Subject/Theme Index . . . . . . 331Table of Contents Short Stories for Students: Volume 25 vii IntroductionPurpose of the BookThe purpose of Short Stories for Students (SSfS) ... write to the editor at:Editor, Short Stories for Students Thomson Gale27500 Drake RoadFarmington Hills, MI 48331-3535xiv Short Stories for Students: Volume 25 Introduction ...

... pray in vain." Self-help is the best help. The Ants and the Grasshopper The ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing ... enough. I passed the days in singing." They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter." The Traveler ... feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter." Fair weather friends are not worth much. The Mountain in Labor A Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud...

... the Miller A Charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going outto battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed ... him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or ... again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt. After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert...

... by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: "O unhappy ... nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding ... was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots tothe city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey. He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his...

... drowned. He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so many innocent persons to perish. As he was indulging in these ... friend in distress. The Dancing Monkeys A Prince had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimics of men's actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils, and when arrayed in ... forgot their dancing and became (as indeed they were) Monkeys instead of actors. Pulling off their masks and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing spectacle...

... Overview of hyperbole in American and Vietnamese short stories. Firstly, hyperbole in American and Vietnamese also happens popular both in the speaking language and writing language by many different ... like a bear hunter’s guide.” (In ―The girl and the graft‖ - O. Henry) CHAPTER II: AN INVESTIGATION INTO EXPRESSIONS OF HYPERBOLE IN SOME TYPICAL SHORT STORIES OF AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE WRITERS ... hyperbole in typical American short stories and typical Vietnamese ones, trying to figure out why they are put in use in this or that way. And finally is comparative research which enables me to find...

... of irony Several types of irony exist, all of which may be classified under one of three broad headings: verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. 2.1. Verbal irony Verbal irony ... spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters. ... (Hoang Tat Truong, 1993:53) Every language has a grammatical system and different language has some- what different grammatical systems. We can explain what grammatical meanings are by showing...

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... Five Short Stories Alphonse DaudetThe Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XIII, Part 4.Selected by ... successfully as a colonist in “Port-Tarascon.” Some volumes of reminiscences, aconsiderable number of short stories, some delightful tales for children, and a few plays complete the listof his more important ... marked the work ofsome of his colleagues. None of his work is more perfect of its kind than his short stories, and the collection called “Contes dulundi” from which the following examples are taken...