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- PublicationOpen AccessPoetry for EFL: Exploring Change in Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions(Universidad de Granada, 2020-01-31) Férez Mora, Pedro Antonio; Coyle Balibrea, Yvette; Didáctica de la Lengua y la LiteraturaThis study explores undergraduate students’ beliefs concerning the potential of poetry as a resource for EFL before and after the administration of a lesson plan based on a poem. To this end, 132 students were surveyed to obtain both quantitative and qualitative data on the linguistic, motivational and intercultural benefits which literature has been said to contribute to EFL. The results show that, in the pretest, students believe poetry-based English lessons to be more useful for developing linguistic knowledge than for intercultural or motivational gains. In the post-test, however, students assign significantly more importance to the motivational and intercultural components. This change seems to highlight the overly instrumental nature of the instruction students received during their schooling in EFL.