The Post Graduate Teachers teaching English as a second language to
Higher Secondary Classes
that is 11th and 12th grades need to cultivate a
good sense of appreciation for poetry. They need to
inherit the thirst for reading poetry aloud and
competence to elucidate the essential characteristics of
poetry. A study was launched to understand the level of
appreciation of poetry of the Post Graduate
Teachers by giving a test with 25 items for testing
their skills of understanding of alliteration,
metaphor, simile, personification, repetition,
sound–patterning, stress-patterning, imagery,
unpatterned rhyme, connotative words and suggestive
words. A sample of 90 post graduate teachers
of both sex working in State Government Higher
Secondary Schools, Private Matriculation Schools
and Private CBSE schools in Chennai city answered the
test in fifty minutes time. The ‘t’ test was
applied. The Post graduate teachers in CBSE schools in
Chennai City had the highest mean scores in
their competency in appreciating the elements of
English poetry. Those in Government Schools and
Matriculation Schools came next in the order. But there
was no significant difference in their
competencies between any two types of schools. They
have a high level of appreciation of poetry but
with slight difference in mean scores. There is no
significant difference in competencies for
appreciating poetry between the post graduate teachers
working in any two kinds of schools
Author(s) Details
Dr. Rajendran Muthiah
Apollo College of Arts and Science, Chennai, India.
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