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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"teaching of literature"”.
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AN EVALUATION OF EXTENSIVE AND INTENSIVE TEACHING OF LITERATURE; ANOTHER YEAR’S EXPERIMENT IN THE ELEVENTH GRADE
Since the start of the 20th century, educators have continuously debated the two prevailing methods of teaching literature: intensive and extensive. Nancy Coryell’s famous 1927 study titled “An Evaluation of Extensive and Intensive Teaching of Literature; A Year’s Experiment in Eleventh Grade” is …
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D(reams) of existing wor(l)ds : a postmodern approach to the teaching of Literature in the English classroom
The aim of this dissertation is to present a means to redress imbalances that have operated in and continue to pervade our school classrooms. The singularity that is demanded by compliance, conformity and order of the Modernist era is now rejected in a celebration of in diversity and heterogeneity. …
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The effectiveness of motion pictures as supplementary devices in the teaching of literature at Pattengill junior high school Lansing, Michigan
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, 1935
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Differential Perceptions of English Teachers About the Teaching of Literature in Seventh-day Adventist Secondary Schools in Selected Regions of the Caribbean
<p><em>Problem</em>. Literature, as a subject in the English curriculum, is not taught in all Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) secondary schools in the Caribbean. This research attempts to investigate and document the reasons why this subject is not taught as part of the English curriculum in some …
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Projects to stimulate appreciation of literature in secondary schools
… that the individual differences and interests of the students have often defeated successful teaching of literature by the old method. The use of projects is one of the most valuable ways of according careful consideration and attention to these individual differences and interests in the …
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Structural Patterns and Principles of Design: An Archetypal Analysis of Four Selected Literary Works and Implications for Teaching Literature in the Secondary Schools
This dissertation deals with the problem of literary study in the secondary schools. The criticism and teaching of literature has been based on the work or its relationship to the world, the author, or the reader. Literary meaning is often sought outside the work itself. Close explication of …
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Criticism, Pedagogy, Practice and Facilitation in Children's Literature, Drama and Oral Storytelling
… for a PhD by Publication draws upon the writings of Geoff Fox over a period of more than 30 years. Fox worked initially as a secondary school teacher, including a formative period in the United States in the late 1960s. Although based at the Exeter University School of Education from 1970 until …
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Conceptualizing Literature Pedagogy: World, Global, and Cosmopolitan Orientations to Teaching Literature in English
While there is a wealth of research about literary history, literary genres, and the nature of the literary text, research on approaches to teaching literature that shape the interpretation and reception of the text is insufficient. My overarching aim in this study is to conceptualize literature …
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The Student, the Teacher, and the Text : an Ethnography of the Literary Acculturation Process in Three Undergraduate Literature Classrooms
… in which students in three undergraduate literature classrooms in a mid-western parochial university "acquired a sense of literature," as well as the role played by their teachers in the process. As qualitative research, the study seeks to provide additional insight and understanding of …
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Impediments to English literary competence: a case for English literature paper 2 in selected rural high schools in uMlalazi Circuit
Studying literature is an integral part of language learning. Literature provides learners with authentic material to learn a language, especially one that is not their home language. This study was conducted to identify the impediments towards literary competence, looking at Grade 12 learners from …
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Utilization of online discussions to enhance students' engagement with William Golding's "Lord of The Flies"
… deny the significant influence and effectiveness of technology implementation in education. However, the teaching of literature components in EFL classes in Iraq is most often still adopting traditional approaches of "tell them and test them". To improve the quality of English literature teaching …
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The Emerging Paradigm of Reader-Text Transaction: Contributions of John Dewey and Louise M. Rosenblatt, with Implications for Educators
… dissertation will trace the emerging paradigm of transaction as a model for the dynamics of the reading process. The paradigm of transaction, implicit in John Dewey's writings as early as 1896 in "The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology," was originally described in terms of "interaction" between …
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DEVELOPING WRITING STRATEGIES FOR LITERATURE AS AN O" LEVEL SUBJECT"
A general investigation of the "O" Level Examiners’ Reports for Literature for the years 1990 to 1992 reveals that many students at the upper secondary level are still weak in literary reading and responding. The Reports seem to indicate that literature students have literal-comprehension skills …