A Case Study on Using Xeroxlore in Teaching English at Academic Level

The paper presents the preliminary results of an investigation experimenting the use of xeroxlore (samples of contemporary folklore transmitted by copier machine) as a potential effective teaching material in the acquisition of English as a foreign language. We started our study from the main characteristics of such type of discourse: accessibility in the sense that people are frequently exposed to items belonging to this category (on the walls of the offices, on the desks, reproduced on plaques, cards, certificates, T-shirts etc.), fast way of disseminating the variants and easily recognizable as concerns the type of discourse. The study took place during the English Practical Course classes, the participants being 15 Philology students in the second year, who were supervised by 2 teachers.