LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN STUDYING LITERATURE
Keywords:
literature, learning activities, strategies, teachingAbstract
The study aims to survey what strategy works best in teaching literature to suit student’s needs in understanding and appreciating literature. For many university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL), the study of literature is indispensable because it exposes students to meaningful contexts that are replete with descriptive language and interesting characters (Van, 2009). Teaching literature to learners requires creativity, innovativeness and resourcefulness. It is through literature that they enhance critical thinking skills in reading literary texts. With appropriate strategies in teaching literature, the students may appreciate how to empathize with literary texts they read.
This paper presents the twelve learning activities used that are interesting and effective in studying literature. It was found out that BSDC respondents described film viewing and critiquing as very interesting and effective. Biology students described group discussion, reflective essays and role-playing as very interesting and effective. Only teacher-student discussion appeared to be very interesting and very effective. Sociology students described concept mapping as very interesting and effective, teacher-student discussion were very interesting and very effective, listening to a lecture and graded oral recitation were interesting and very effective. Information Technology students assessed all learning activities as interesting and effective. When the researcher surveyed the responses of language teachers, she found that graded oral recitation is the least interesting but effective. Through this study, language teachers can create better learning activities that can be most interesting and most effective in studying literature.
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