La poesía como instrumento de motivación. Análisis de poemas de Georg Trakl y Bertolt Brecht: didáctica en la clase de alemán

Elisabeth A. Mager-Hois

doi:10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2024.5.3.350

Authors

Elisabeth A. Mager-Hois National Autonomous University of Mexico (MX) https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5570-2953

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2024.5.3.350

Keywords:

Motivation, poetry, Georg Trakl, Bertolt Brecht, teaching methodology of German

Abstract

The article “Poetry as a motivational instrument” aims to motivate students in learning German, due to a drastic drop out of students in intermediate and higher level classes (A1.2, A2.2) of the Global Plan at the Language Teaching Center of the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlán de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

For this reason, a deep analysis of the different aspects of motivation and its application in the German class is required. In this context, poetry plays an important role, bringing students closer to the target culture in order to strengthening their personality, promoting their social awareness, increasing their cultural horizon, and achieving success in learning German. Expressionist poems by Georg Trakl and poems by Bertolt Brecht with a critical position towards society have been chosen. These poems help students mature in their personality and become interested in the target culture and language. To support this goal, a section of didactic recommendations is included, reflecting the theory and its application in literary workshops. Consequently, the article is presented in three sections: “Theoretical reflection on motivation”, “Motivation through poetry” and Recommendation for didactics”.

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Author Biography

Elisabeth A. Mager-Hois, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Bachelor's degree in Pedagogia from the University of Munich, Germany (1971) and in Antropologia Social Anthropology from Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (ENAH-Mexico), with a Master's degree in Estudios Mexico-Estados Unidos from Facultad de Estudios Superiores Acatlan (FES Acatlan) in 2001 and a PhD in Antropologia from the Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas (UNAM, 2008). She is a national researcher of the SNI and a Professor in the Department of German, Russian, and Greek at the Faculty of Superior Studies Acatlán (FES Acatlán) of UNAM.

Full-time Professor with a "C" rank, with PRIDE "D". Winner of the «Mejor tesis de doctorado» award from CISAN, 2009, and Honorable Mention from the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Chair at CIESAS of Golfo-Universidad Veracruzana in 2010. She has published several books, including " Lucha y resistencia de la tribu kikapú " (FES Acatlán, UNAM, 2004, revised and expanded in 2008); "Kickapoo" (CDI, 2006); Casinos y poder: El caso del Kickapoo Lucky Eagle Casino (2010 and electronic edition in 2014) She has also worked as a co-editor and coordinator of books and collections. She has numerous papers and articles published nationally and internationally on topics such as group cohesion, cultural assimilation, resistance and ethnic consciousness, ethnic identity, dialectics, migration, ideology and power, analysis of polysynthetic languages, and German-language poetry of the 20th century, among others.

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