Poetic Games: The Learning Activity for Writing Poetry

Abstract

This article aims to study poetic games employed in poetry writing contests and to present how to use such games in teaching how to write poetry. The study shows that there are three poetic games played in poetry writing contests: Pha-Mi, Klon Muet, and Klon Cho Nguan. According to the use of these games in teaching, there are seven steps: studying prosody; understanding a poetic game; selecting words or game patterns; writing poetry; critiquing and editing poetry; playing poetic games; and sharing experiences. The benefits of this kind of poetry writing instruction are for both teachers and students. This means that instruction by teachers will respond to both the indicators and desired characteristics of the Basic Education Core Curriculum B.E. 2551, and to integrated interdisciplinary teaching. Moreover, students will have voices and choices in learning and their creative thinking and cooperative skills will be developed during studying.