learned something

1. Approaches
in Teaching
Literature
ENGL 2

2. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, the students should be
able to:
a. identify the different approaches in teaching
literature; and
b. analyze classroom situations that make use of a
specific approach in teaching literature

3. Teaching approach
• to "provide a framework, or sequence of
operations to be used when we come to
actualities”
• a theoretical view of what literature is,
and of how it can be learnt

4. Information-
based
Approach
01

5. Information-based Approach
• provide students with background information
• explain the content of the text to the class
• ask questions to check students’ knowledge based
on what they have read examine history, historical
background characteristics of literary movements

6. Activities
• comprehension questions exercises
• lecture sessions
• read notes from workbooks/handouts with students

7. Language-
based
Approach
02

8. Language-based Approach
• incorporate language and literature syllabus by
studying the language
• guide students to express their opinions towards a
text
• set language activities in a literature classroom

9. Language-based Approach
• encourage students to actively participate in the
process of understanding the text
• generate language practice using the text

10. Activities
• group work
• language activities (cloze, jigsaw puzzle, prediction
exercises)
• debate
• performance activities (drama, role play, poetry
recital)

11. 03
Personal
Response
Approach

12. Personal Response Approach
• “thematic approach”
• encourages learners 'active involvement
emotionally, intellectually, draw own experiences,
feelings, opinions
• texts chosen according to same theme compare to
learner
• encourage students to express feelings towards the
issues of the text

13. Activities
• explain a text to students
• journal writing
• brainstorming sessions
• small group discussion
• writing about feelings/reactions towards an issue

14. Paraphrastic
Approach
04

15. Paraphrastic Approach
• surface meaning of text
• paraphrase
• re-word the story in simpler language
• translating it into another language

16. Paraphrastic Approach
• discuss what the author says in the text
• get students to tell the storyline of the text
• beginners of target language

17. Activities
• translation of text using L1
• re-tell story to students
• students read paraphrased notes in the
workbook/handouts
• students retell story to the class

18. Moral-
Philosophical
Approach
05

19. Moral-Philosophical Approach
• read a particular literary text
• incorporate moral values in lessons
• assist students to understand themes in future
readings.

20. Moral-Philosophical Approach
• get students to search moral values from a text
• ask students the values they learned from the text
• raise students’ awareness of values derived from the
text

21. Activities
• reflective sessions
• discussions on moral dilemmas
• tell moral values to students
• conduct self-evaluation activities

22. Stylistics Approach
06

23. Stylistics Approach
• appreciation of literary text
• combination of linguistic analysis and literary
criticism (Lazar, 1993)
• guide students to interpret a text by looking at the
language used by the author

24. Stylistics Approach
• get students to mark any linguistic features from the
text that are significant to their reading
• encourage students to discuss beyond the surface
meaning of the text

25. Activities
• identify linguistic features (e. g. vocabulary, tenses)
in a text
• discuss different meanings of a text
• extract examples from a text that describe a setting
• identify adjectives that describe a character

26. End of
presentation.
Thank you.

27. References
Approaches in teaching literature. (2017, April 5).
https://www.slideshare.net/MjAbles1/approach
es-in-teaching-literature