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LIST OF CHART FIGURES

Figure 1 Gender of the respondents ........................................................................................ 18

Figure 2 Age of the respondents .............................................................................................. 18
Figure 3 Mode of study ............................................................................................................ 19

Figure 4 Type of school for teaching practices ....................................................................... 19
Figure 5 Learners' interest in poetry lessons .......................................................................... 20

Figure 6 Clarity of the subject content and learning activities ............................................... 21
Figure 7 Teaching within a learner-centrered approach ........................................................ 21

Figure 8 Achievement of basic competencies and lesson objectives ....................................... 22

Figure 9 Time allocated for the poetry lessons ....................................................................... 23
Figure 10 Teachers' thorough understanding of all different forms of poetry ........................ 23

Figure 11 Relevancy of prescribed poetry textbooks to specific grades ................................ 24
Figure 12 Learners' motivation to participate during poetry lessons ..................................... 25

Figure 13 Textbook poetry content for both teachers and learners ........................................ 25

Figure 14 Confusion in the use of old and modern English words in the poems .................... 26
Figure 15 Need for extra lessons in poetry .............................................................................. 27

Figure 16 Learners' beliefs towards the importance of poetry ................................................ 27
Figure 17 Some of the difficulties / challenges student teachers face in poetry teaching ....... 28

Figure 18 Form and content of poems student teachers find it easy to teach ......................... 31

Figure 19 Employing the learner-centered approach in poetry teaching .............................. 32
Figure 20 The benefits of poetry to student teachers and learners ......................................... 33
Figure 21 Effective methods and strategies student teachers use to motivate and boost up

learners' desire to learn poetry ................................................................................................ 35

Figure 22 Advice given by student teachers to help learners who struggle to understand
poetry analysis ......................................................................................................................... 36

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