LITERATURE

• Personal values of teaching literature are:

  1. Enjoyment
  2. Imagination and Inspiration
  3. Vicarious experience
  4. Understanding and Empathy
  5. Cultural Heritage
  6. Moral Reasoning
  7. Literary and Artistic Preferences
• Academic Value are:

  1. Improving reading skills
  2. Developing writing voice and style
  3. Learning content
  4. Promoting art appreciation
• Cultural Enrichment- promotes cultural understanding
• Linguistic model- literature provides examples of good writing
• Mental training- literature trains the mind and sensibility
• Extension of linguistic competence- stretches the competencies of learners
• Authenticity- Literature is a genuine linguistic material
• Memorability- poetry and songs are memorable
• Rhythmic resource- literature assists learners in assimilating ryhthm
• Motivating material- Literature is more likely to engage and motivate learners
• open to interpretation- literature is a basis for genuine interaction
• Convenience- Literature is handy
• The Benefits of literature are:

  1. Cultural Enrichment
  2. Linguistic model
  3. Mental Training
  4. Extension of linguistic competence
  5. Authenticity
  6. Memorability
  7. Rhythmic Resource
  8. Motivating material
  9. Open to interpretation
  10. Convenience