Teaching Japanese EFL learners literary devices using　Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech

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This paper examines the unique discourse features of Martin Luther King Jr.ʼs historic speech, “I Have a Dream”, which was delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C., in 1963. The paper begins with a brief description of the context in which King gave his speech by considering the social and political climate, the location, temporal setting, and the cultural circumstances in which the speech was delivered. Next, the author will consider the unique rhetorical discourse features that are found in Kingʼs speech. These include such aspects as the linguistic structure within the text, cohesion and the particular genre of the speech. Finally, this paper shows how this text can be used to increase Japanese university EFL learnersʼ awareness of literary devices such as gurative language, metaphor, parallelism, rhyme and simile.

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