%0 Journal Article %T Teaching Eighteenth-century Poetic Satire with a Competency-based Approach: Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu %A Mar¨ªa Jes¨²s Lorenzo Modia %A Bego£¿a Lasa ¨¢lvarez %J International Education Studies %D 2011 %I %R 10.5539/ies.v4n5p25 %X The purpose of this essay is to analyse the teaching of literature with a competency-based approach. This is exemplified by means of a thorough study of a poetic duel between two relevant eighteenth-century writers, Jonathan Swift and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and more specifically, by means of the satires entitled respectively ¡°The Lady¡¯s Dressing Room¡± (1732) and ¡°The Reason that Induced Dr S[wift] to write a Poem call¡¯d the Lady¡¯s Dressing Room¡± (1734). %U http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ies/article/view/13300