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What is the main purpose of the personal-response approach according to the text?
What is the main purpose of the moral philosophical approach according to the text?
Which of the following activities is NOT mentioned in the text as being practiced in the literary approach?
Which of the following is a benefit of the personal growth model?
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What is the main focus of the brainstorming activity mentioned in the text?
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Which of the following is a key feature of the personal-response approach according to the text?
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Which of the following activities is specifically mentioned in the text as being practiced in the literary approach?
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What is the main purpose of the moral philosophical approach?
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What is the primary benefit of the literary approach mentioned in the text?
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Which of the following activities is mentioned in the text as being practiced in the literary approach?
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What is the main focus of the personal-response approach according to the text?
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What is the primary goal of the moral philosophical approach mentioned in the text?
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What is the main benefit of the personal growth model according to the text?
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How does the personal-response approach engage students according to the text?
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Study Notes
Approaches to Teaching Literature
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Moral-Philosophical Approach:
- Helps students to be aware of moral values and identify them in literary texts
- Encourages students to go beyond the text for moral and philosophical inference
- Aims to instil values for good citizenship
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Personal Growth Model:
- Comprises personal-response approach and moral philosophical approach
- Enables students to develop their language, character, and emotions by connecting and responding to issues and themes in their lives
- Encourages students to love and enjoy reading literature for personal development
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Personal-Response Approach:
- Encourages students to make sense of their experiences and personal lives with text themes
- Promotes students to associate the subject matters of the reading texts with personal life experiences
- Engages individuals in literary text reading as personal fulfillment and pleasure can be met while developing language and literary competency
Methods Employed in Teaching Literature
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Lecture Method:
- Formal lecture
- Informal lecture
- Straight recitation
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Discussion Methods:
- Pair work
- Buzz group
- Group work
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Public Speaking Methods:
- Memorizing
- Interpretative reading (Readers Theater, Chamber Theater)
- Debate
- Panel forum
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Audio-Visual Methods:
- No specific examples mentioned
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Project Methods:
- Scrapbook making
- Exhibit/Diorama
- Dramatization
- Literary map
- Time line
- Video/audio scriptwriting
- Making a storyboard/screen adaptation
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Field Research Methods:
- Field trip
- Author interview
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Creative Writing Methods:
- Journal writing
- Closure writing
- Team writing
- Writing workshop
Strategies and Techniques
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Using the title and cover design:
- Encourages students to guess or infer what the book is about from the title and cover design
- Can also be used to ask students to create their own title and cover design for a novel, short story, or drama
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Getting in the mood:
- A guided fantasy technique to help students imagine and visualize scenes from the story
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Writing Chapter 0:
- Asks students to write a prequel to the story
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Creative Conversation Writing:
- Encourages students to write dialogues and explore their views about the characters or story
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Movie Poster:
- No specific details mentioned
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Movie Trailer:
- No specific details mentioned
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Sculpting:
- Students work in groups to recreate important scenes from a story through a kind of montage or tableau set-up
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Graphic Representation:
- Students create a visual representation of the plot, characters, or setting
Other Key Points
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Questions in teaching literature:
- Should include basic questions (e.g., "what is the title of the selection" or "where is the setting") and higher-order thinking skills (e.g., self-reflection, formulating their own questions or interrogating with the text)
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Considerations in choosing literary texts:
- Students' language ability
- Students' reading ability
- Students' cognitive ability
- Culture load
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Teaching literature:
- Can be a source of facts or information to be delivered to students by the teacher
- Stresses the role of literature in condensing values, ideas, and wisdom that have accumulated within a culture over historical periods
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Description
Explore the moral and philosophical values in literary texts through brainstorming, discussions, journal writing, and interpretation. This approach helps students identify and reflect on moral and philosophical themes within the text.
