Literature as study and resource: the purposes of English literature teaching at university level

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Title: Literature as study and resource: the purposes of English literature teaching at university level
Authors: Zaro Vera, Juan Jesús
Keywords: Literatura | Enseñanza de la lengua | Lengua inglesa | Enseñanza universitaria | Método de enseñanza
Issue Date: Nov-1991
Publisher: Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa
Citation: ZARO VERA, Juan Jesús. “Literature as study and resource: the purposes of English literature teaching at university level”. Revista alicantina de estudios ingleses. No. 04 (Nov. 1991). ISSN 0214-4808, pp. 163-175
Abstract: This paper attempts to examine the two main purposes of the teaching of English literature at university level in an EFL situation. The first, literature as study, is divided into two options. One is the type of teaching that considers literature as a cultural product for whose interpretation aspects outside the literary work (historical, social, critical, biographical data) must be accounted for. The other is the stylistics option, dealing with the analysis of literary texts by examining their language. The second general purpose is the recent widespread use of literature as a resource for the teaching of the English language. In our opinion, it is the EFL environment which allows the implementation of the two aims, whose goals and methods are closely interlinked, providing as well a connection between the teaching of language and literature. Some suggestions for this implementation are offered in the specific case of Spanish universities.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10045/5497 | http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.1991.4.14
ISSN: 0214-4808
DOI: 10.14198/raei.1991.4.14
Language: eng
Type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Appears in Collections:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses - 1991, No. 4

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