“I have a dream” (Martin Luther King) and the matter of translating and teaching argumentative essays in high schools
* Correspondence: Pham Ngoc Lan (email: lanpn@hcmue.edu.vn)
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Received:
03 Jun 2021
Revised:
12 Aug 2021
Accepted:
12 Aug 2021
Published:
09 Nov 2021
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Phạm, L. . N. (2021). “I have a dream” (Martin Luther King) and the matter of translating and teaching argumentative essays in high schools. Van Hien University Journal of Science 7(4), 142-148.
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The paper provides a genre description of the argumentative essay in the literary genre system and in the 2018 Vietnamese language and literary educational curriculum, and accordingly introduces a loose translation of the speech “I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King as part of the text-corpus for genre-based teaching. The paper also suggests a genre-based approach to text reading-comprehension, analysis and teaching.
Keywords:
essay, argumentative essay, genre, speech, Martin Luther King, I have a dream, rhetorics.
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