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Will's Words: Using Language-Learning Technology to Teach Shakespeare in the Classroom

Keller, Jessica
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1556983934107981

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2019, BS, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Studies.
William Shakespeare's plays and poems are curricular standards in most American public high schools. Consequently, English Language Arts teachers everywhere are faced with the difficult task of teaching late-sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century words, constructions, and genres to twenty-first century students. Personal and anecdotal evidence indicates that the practice of teaching Shakespeare's plays as though they are novels is alive and well. Such an approach fails to employ several pedagogical practices that can make a significant difference to student comprehension, including using of technology and reframing Shakespearean English as a quasi-foreign language. This thesis examines and combines these two practices to create a design for a language-learning app geared specifically toward middle- and high-school-aged students learning Shakespearean English.
Don-John Dugas, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Candace Bowen (Committee Member)
Elizabeth Howard, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
William Kist, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
110 p.
Education; Educational Technology; Language Arts; Secondary Education
Shakespeare; teaching Shakespeare; language learning; technology; apps

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  • Keller, J. (2019). Will's Words: Using Language-Learning Technology to Teach Shakespeare in the Classroom [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1556983934107981

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Keller, Jessica. Will's Words: Using Language-Learning Technology to Teach Shakespeare in the Classroom . 2019. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1556983934107981.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Keller, Jessica. "Will's Words: Using Language-Learning Technology to Teach Shakespeare in the Classroom ." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1556983934107981

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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