Supplementary guidelines and information for Other Tongue entries
Teachers may issue appropriate support materials to help learners write their poems just as they normally would in writing activities.
It is acceptable for a similar approach to be used in a number of poems entered by the same centre, but efforts should be made to ensure poems represent learners' own work.
It is acceptable to use approaches that draw from published materials like novels, poems, films, adverts, leaflets, newspapers, etc. provided that poems produced represent learners' own work.
Very restricted approaches may disadvantage learners in terms of originality.
Teachers should encourage learners to aim for accuracy in terms of spelling, grammar, syntax, etc.
Judges will be mindful of the fact that poems may play with language or use non-standard structures
for effect. However, where it is obvious that there are errors and/or these detract from the overall effect, judges may take this into consideration.
Learners are invited to provide a brief summary of their poem in English. This is not compulsory but it may assist the judging process to know more information about the poem/poet. This should require no more than a few sentences. The competition does not prescribe the content of these summaries but some examples may be;
The learners reasons for choosing to write about a particular subject
Their general feelings about the poem or the experience of writing a poem in another language
The thinking behind their choice of words and/or use of figurative language
Details of any materials they have drawn upon and what they thought of these
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