The Possibility of Dialogues : A Class of "Highschool Students' Poems"

Abstract

To read the poems of the students' own writing helps not only to activate the students' dialogues between themselves, but also to motivate them to start a conversation with their "other ego," because their eyes are turned toward the excellent "expressions" in the poems. To encourage the students to write "criticism," "reading impressions," and "the author's message," and to read what each other writes are effective means to establish such dialogues. Because of the limitation of the poems as teaching material (because of their being the students' works), my future goal is to search for other such teaching materials as the students can make a diachronic discovery (the term used by Mr. Sugai).