Fundamental approaches to teaching english literature to ESL students: overview of the worldwide experience
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2020
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Sadovets, O.
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Khmelnytskyi National University
Анотація
The paper gives an overview of approaches to teaching literature to ESL students
in order to form their literary competence – the mastery of reading skills and knowledge of
role and norms of literary language, ability to differentiate a literary and non-literary text,
to understand and analyze them. It has been stated that nowadays literature is considered
to be too complicated and inaccessible to ESL students which is caused by ineffective
teaching methods that are teacher-centered and do not take into account students’ points of
view. Besides, there is a discrepancy between the content of the syllabus and teaching
approaches and strategies. Different classifications of approaches to teaching literature
worldwide have been characterized: 1) language-based, culture-based, professional growth
and integrated approaches; 2) traditional, language-based and reader-response approaches;
3) New Criticism, structuralism, stylistic, reader-response, language-based and critical
literacy approaches. Their advantages and disadvantages have been highlighted. It has
been proved that no definite approach can be absolutely efficient as teachers have to use a
combination of methods that are student-centered, interactive, communicative; fulfill
educational, communicative and humanistic functions; and create better background knowledge
of students so that they can discuss the content of the work, not concentrating on grammar,
lexis and textual interpretation. Students should be encouraged to read independently,
appreciate literary texts and develop language skills and cultural awareness about the
language of the original. It has been defined that reader-response and language-based
approaches work well for ESL students. Stylistic and critical literacy approaches are the
most motivating and communicative, but the most effective way is to combine approaches to
take into account each aspect of literature study and involve students as active participants.
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literature teaching, ESL students, approaches to teaching, literary competence, student-centered teaching
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Sadovets O. Fundamental approaches to teaching english literature to ESL students: overview of the worldwide experience / O. Sadovets // Comparative Professional Pedagogy. – 2020. – № 10 (4). – P. 80–91.