SEE 19 Flashcards
These are books and other written works which have artistic or creative merit or lasting value.
Literatures
This defined literature as pieces of writing that are valued as works of art especially novels, plays and poems in contrast to technical writings such as books, newspapers and magazines.
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
What is the purpose of literature?
A means of exploring what is to be human and it helps us to understand people, societies, events, and culture.
Two Divisions of Literature
Prose and Poetry
Refers to written or spoken language without metrical structure.
Prose
A literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound and rhythm.
Poetry
Why is Literature important?
- it improves reading skills
- It provides a rich content for new vocabulary and language structures.
- It includes the “four language skills”
- helps with writing skills and promotes oral work
- promotes cultural and intercultural awareness
- it connects individuals with larger truths and ideas in a society.
- it teaches the universal human experience.
- it opens up a world of inspiration and creativity, while also developing skills that are essential for today’s global environment.
What are the factors affecting interests in literature?
- Contemporary
- Ability to relate to students
- Literary merit
- Choice vs. requirement
- Teacher preference
- Administration, parents and community students
six powerful strategies to choose books and reading materials
- Find out what students enjoy reading
- Give them time to explore the books in the library or in the classroom
- Explore the interest of your students
- Find a book series to follow
- Understand the reading level and ability of your students
- Ask helpful questions on how to choose books to read.
Models of Teaching Literature
- Language Model
- Cultural Model
- Personal Growth Model
A model that is a source of facts or information and is teacher-centered
Cultural Model
A model where teacher transmits knowledge and information to students.
Cultural Model
A model that is focused on the “text as a product” to gain information.
Cultural Model
A model where there is an integration “between language and literature”; “Learner centered” and “activity-based”
Language Model
Model that focuses on how the language is used; reading between the lines
Language Model
Students improve language proficiency by using“ literature as a resource” in learning the language
Language Model
A model where students make connections to their personal lives through the themes and issues; More “student centered”
Personal Growth Model
A model where students grow in language, emotions and character.
Personal Growth Model
A model of literature that is a rich avenue of information.
Cultural Model
Six Approaches to Teaching Literature
- Language-Based Approach
- Paraphrastic Approach
- Information-Based Approach
- Personal Response Approach
- Moral-Philosophical Approach
- Stylistic Approach
An approach that seeks the fusion between language and literature.
Language-Based Approach
This approach will elicit response, motivate, and encourage students to read to connect on the text and their personal experiences.
Language-Based Approach
An approach that is used to paraphrase or reword the story in plain language or translating it into other language.
Paraphrastic Approach
An approach that is a “source of information”.
Information-Based Approach
An approach that examines the “history and characteristics of literary movements” based on “the cultural, social, political, and historical background of the text”.
Information-Based Approach
This is the product that we get from literature through the teaching of “morality”.
moral values
Approach that uses “linguistic analysis and literary critics” to understand and appreciate the “literary text”.
Stylistic approaches
Two objectives of Stylistic Approach
- look beyond the surface meaning of the text
- expands the knowledge and awareness of the language
Benjamin Bloom created this in the 1950s to categorize the levels of reasoning skills.
Bloom’s Taxonomy for Questioning
Most elementary of intellectual skills.
Comprehension
Verbs used in Comprehension Taxonomy
∙ tell ∙ describe ∙ make a list ∙ identify ∙ reproduce ∙ repeat ∙ memorize ∙ recall
Represents skills to establish relationships
Interpretation
Verbs for Interpretation Taxonomy
∙ show the relationship ∙ characterize ∙ associate, ∙ compare ∙ distinguish, ∙ categorize ∙ classify ∙ differentiate
Represents those skills whose function facilitates transfer of experience already acquired to new situations
Application
Verbs in Application Taxonomy
∙ apply ∙ demonstrate ∙ dramatize ∙ illustrate ∙ interpret ∙ employ ∙ practice
Represents a more complex level of judging or valuing a point of view
Analysis
Verbs for Analysis Taxonomy
∙ analyze, ∙ discover, ∙ determine ∙ observe ∙ examine ∙ investigate
Represents the ability to create “new” and personal forms of expression and reasoning. Originality and creativity are a part of synthesis.
Synthesis