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CHAPTER 2 – COMPETENCY 1
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UNDERSTANDING THE MODELS OF TEACHING LITERATURE Take Off: The study of literature aims to promote language development like vocabulary and structure. It also helps one to achieve pleasure and satisfaction in reading while appreciating what has been in one's own time and space. This universality of literature makes it appealing to everyone, regardless of culture, race, sex, and time. As students engage in a literacy piece, their critical thinking is stimulated and mental process of abstract reasoning is enriched. In the process of analyzing symbolisms, implied meanings, nuances, and messages, the reader's emotional powers are unraveled. As such, there is a need to anchor the analysis on literary models to better understand how each literary piece presents peculiar ways on how one sees life as evidenced by organization of ideas, form, structures, and expressions. Remember that it is through understanding that we fully appreciate something. In this lesson, you will be acquainted with the three models in teaching literature and how the intertwining of these models can lead to holistic teaching. Furthermore, you are expected to demonstrate the extent of your understanding as you plan and implement a session with an in- service teacher. Task 1: Answer the following Questions, 1. Why should you teach literature? 2. What can your students gain from the experience? 3. What is your understanding of a teaching model? 4. How helpful is adopting a model in teaching literature in a language classroom?? Though each model has distinct characteristics, there are specific ways to expand your students' experiences of learning literature in a second language. With the use of the models, students will be able to access the target language, understand the target culture, and eventually realize the seamless connections between the language and the other subjects. Such connections allow them to see the relevance of language in other disciplnes like history, math and art. In so doing, they will be able to understand the universality of language age. Through guided practice, your students will see examples of metaphors, symbols, analogies, puns and unconsciously think about similar constructions in their first language. This an elucidation of connecting language and personal growth meaningfully. Summing up, literature which is built from language, serves as a gateway for students to arrive at their own understanding of words and phrases. As they read literary texts, they acquire new words, and learn discourse functions, structures and sentence patterns which are scaffolds for effective writing. The use of language in the literary texts within its cultural context supports personal growth. Succinctly. Carter considers that: "teaching literature within a cultural model enables students to understand and appreciate cultures and ideologies different from their own in time and space and to come to perceive tradition of thought, feeling and artistic form within the heritage the literature of such cultures endows." (Carter & Long. 1997) End of presentation
