Croix Clayton
Translingual content-integrated literature curricula can provide ESL/EFL learners with acquisitional, metalinguistic, and affective benefits. Haiku, the compact Japanese verse form, may be an ideal choice of literary genre to integrate in this way, due to its clarity and simplicity.
Croix C. Clayton holds a MA ESL from Hamline University and a BA from the University of Minnesota. He has taught academic writing, philosophy, and literature at the Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE) in Dalian, China, and currently teaches in the Intensive English Center at Saint Cloud State University, and in the Minneapolis Public School system. He has walked under a spider the size of his hand on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, and once sat next to Dr. Who on a flight to London. He lives in St. Paul.
