❤ DRAMA STRATEGIES
Advantages of Diffrent Genres of Literature to Language Teaching.
How to Teach Literature in the classroom?
English literary elements
The traditional approaches, different models and methods
setting
Characterization
Plot
Through different types, literature increases students' self-awareness and worldview by exposing them to different cultures and lifestyles.
Climax
Resolution
The Cultural Model
Literary text and transmits knowledge
DRAMA
Students not only learn a variety of words and expressions
The ideology and culture of the target language
"Links students with a range of expressions which have universal values over along period of time""
Advantages
SHORT STORY
It promotes learners to understand different cultures and beliefsin relation to their own.
POETRY
NOVEL
Defects
It is a teacher-centred and provides limited language work
it is rejected by educators working within the area of EFL
The
Language Model
Language is the literary medium and uses the literary text as a focus for grammatical and structural analysis.
It stimulates students to perceive theliterary text in an organized and orderly way to demonstrate some linguistic features
Figurative language
Direct and indirect speech
Teaching strategies
Prediction exrcises
Jumbled sentences
summary writing
Creative writing
Role play
Benefits of the language model
the expansion of vocabulary
Increased reading fluency
Interpretive and inferential skills
Exposure to a greater variety of language
🚩 Most teachers of English as a Foreign Language are not qualified to teach English literature.
✅ They do not have the experience and skills necessary for the success of this topic.
✅ Most schools lack adequate audiovisual teaching aids that can facilitate the teaching and learning process.
✅ Students have different levels when it comes to their proficiency in English and their proficiency in English.
: ⭐ Teachers must use different methods and instruments to tailor teaching to students with different abilities.
✏ Problems of literature Teaching in the EFL context.
🚩 Teaching literature is an interesting task, however, it is not without its difficulties. Teachers and students often view "Lliterary language as particularly problematic because it does not adhere to accepted norms of use, but exploits and even distorts accepted conventions in new and unexpected ways "(Lazar, 1990).
What is literature?
It’s used to describe any kind of writing that is marked by it’ sartistic form, creativity, imagination, and purpose. Rees (1973) defines literature as the sort of “writing which expresses and communicates thought, feelings and attitudes towards life”.
Much & Retnaningdyah state that literature is “written record of man’s spirit of his thoughts, emotions, aspirations, it’s the history, and the only history of the human soul.
Much & Retnaningdyah outline the qualities of literature as:
- Man’s creation
2 Abstraction human life and experiences
3 The use of written and/or oral language as the medium of expression
4 The representation of truth and beauty aesthetic values
5 Useful for enjoyment and understanding
The Approaches of Teaching Literature
In whiteheads perspective (1968:164 )the factor that "determines students" lifelong learning towards reading is how the teacher approaches the teaching of literature."
The Information-Based Approach
According to (Carter, 1988( the information-based approach is "a way of teaching knowledge about literature whereby literature is seen to offer a source of information to the students."
The Language-Based Approach
The language-based approach is student-centered. Its concern is to make students alert to the correct use of language. It makes students combine between language and literature more closely.
The Personal Response Approach
This approach teaches literature for its own sake not for language learning and development purposes. The personal response approach relies onindividual"s interpretation and response of a single literary text differently to text.
The Periphrastic Approach
The periphrastic approach contends with the overt meaning of a literary text; therefore, teachers who employ it can use simple language or native language to present better understanding to the text.
The importance of using literature in foreign language
the importance of using authentic materials and activities in the classroom
Students achieve communicative competence
The materials and classroom activities focus on the referential function of the language
Students do not acquire the ability to understand the creative uses of the language
Give their personal response and reaction