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Lesson 1 - Using Literature in English Language Teaching

The document outlines the objectives and goals of using literature in English language teaching, emphasizing literary appreciation, emotional maturity, creativity, critical thinking, and literary competence. It discusses various reasons for incorporating literature in the classroom, such as cultural enrichment, language enrichment, and personal involvement, as well as models of using literature, including cultural, language, and personal growth models. Overall, it highlights the importance of literature in enhancing language learning and personal development.

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Lesson 1 - Using Literature in English Language Teaching

The document outlines the objectives and goals of using literature in English language teaching, emphasizing literary appreciation, emotional maturity, creativity, critical thinking, and literary competence. It discusses various reasons for incorporating literature in the classroom, such as cultural enrichment, language enrichment, and personal involvement, as well as models of using literature, including cultural, language, and personal growth models. Overall, it highlights the importance of literature in enhancing language learning and personal development.

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Using Literature in English

Language Teaching
BEED 15
Teaching English in the Elementary Grades through Literature
OBJECTIVES:
• identify the terms related to literature and English language teaching
• recognize the characteristics of literature as reasons for using it in class
• illustrate one’s own understanding of the models of using literature
• write a reflection paper to discuss the use of literature in language class
OUTLINE:
• Goals of Teaching Literature
• Reasons for Using Literature in Class
• Models of Using Literature
Goals of Teaching Literature
Using Literature in English Language Teaching
GOALS

Literary Appreciation
Character and Emotional Maturity
Imagination and Creativity
Critical Thinking
Literary Competence
Development of literary appreciation and a
refined reading taste
• The literary experience should provide students a love for literature.
• They will learn what is beautiful in a poem, what to like in a drama,
what is good in a novel or short story, or what is worthwhile in an
essay.
• Hopefully they will read on their own and become readers of
literature for life.
Development of students’ character and
emotional maturity
• Through literature, the students can discover and realize many
universal truths and insights about the world and human nature.
• They may learn from the different literary texts knowledge, wisdom,
and values that they will apply in real life.
Development and/or enhancement of the
imagination and creativity
• The different literary genres allow the readers to enter different worlds
– realistic, fantastic, futuristic, and even out of this world.
• Literature hopefully will inspire them to write their own poems,
essays, fiction, or drama and encourage them to respond creatively to
tapping their own skills and talents in drawing, singing, acting, and the
like.
Development of critical thinking

• Literature is a very good means to develop critical thinking.


• Students may be challenged to interrogate their own beliefs and
practices and those of others.
• The study of literature will help them interpret, analyze and criticize
things in their own life and those around them.
Development and/or extension of literary
competence
• Literary competence is the ability to internalize the ‘grammar’ of
literature which would permit a reader to convert linguistics sequences
into literary structures and meaning.
• Anyone may be able to read the literary text, but may not fully
comprehend what text may signify or mean; he/she must possess
literary competence not just reading comprehension skills.
Reasons for Using Literature in
Class
Using Literature in English Language Teaching
According to Collie and Slater…

• Valuable Authentic Materials


• Most works of literature are not created for the primary purpose of
teaching a language.
• Learners are exposed to actual language samples of real life/real
life-like settings.
According to Collie and Slater…

• Cultural Enrichment
• Literary works facilitate understanding how communication takes
place in that country.
• Works present a full and colorful setting in which characters from
many social/regional backgrounds can be described.
• Literature adds a lot to the cultural grammar of the learners.
According to Collie and Slater…

• Language Enrichment
• Literature provides learners with a wide range of individual lexical
or syntactic items.
• Students also become more productive and adventurous when they
begin to perceive the richness and diversity of the language
they are trying to learn and begin to make use of some of that
potential themselves.
According to Collie and Slater…

• Personal Involvement
• Understanding the meanings of lexical items or phrases becomes
less significant than pursuing the development of the story.
• Students feel close to certain characters and shares their emotional
responses.
• This can be beneficial to the whole language learning process.
According to Maley…

• Universality
• The themes literature deals with are common to all cultures
despite their different way of treatment.
• These experiences all happen to human beings.
According to Maley…

• Non-Triviality
• Literature does not trivialize or talk down.
• It is about things which mattered to the author when he wrote
them.
• It may offer genuine as well as merely “authentic” inputs.
According to Maley…

• Personal Relevance
• Literature deals with ideas, things, sensations and events which
students are able to relate it to their own lives.
• These either constitute part of the reader’s experience or
imagination.
According to Maley…

• Variety
• Literature includes within it all possible varieties of subject
matter.
• Within literature, we can find the language of law and of
mountaineering, of medicine and of bull-fighting, of church
sermons and nursery talk.
According to Maley…

• Interest
• Literature deals with themes and topics which are intrinsically
interesting.
• Authors treat themes in ways designed to engage the readers’
attention.
According to Maley…

Magic and Fantasy


Adventure
Greek Mythology
…
According to Maley…

• Economy and Suggestive Power


• Even in its simplest forms, literature invites us to go beyond what
is said to what is implied.
• It suggests many ideas with few words.
• Maximum output can often be derived from minimum input.
According to Maley…

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.


According to Maley…

• Ambiguity
• Literature speaks subtly different meanings to different people.
• Each learner’s interpretation has validity within limits.
• No two readers will have a completely convergent interpretation.
According to Maley…

I shall be telling this with a sigh


Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Models of Using Literature
Using Literature in English Language Teaching
Cultural Model

• views a literary text as a product


• treats literature as a source of information about the target culture
• examine the social, political and historical background to a text, literary
movements and genres
• tends to be quite teacher-centered
Language Model

• aims to be more learner-centered


• paying attention to the way language is used
• may focus on general grammar and vocabulary, or use stylistic analysis
• supply many linguistic opportunities to the language teacher and allow
many of the most valuable exercises of language learning
Personal Growth Model

• a process-based approach and tries to be more learner-centered


• encourages learners to draw on their own opinions, feelings and
personal experiences
• aims for interaction between the text and the reader in English, helping
make the language more memorable
Thank you!
Prepared by:
DALE JOSEPH P. PRENDOL
Part-Time Instructor, CTE

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