Make Them Read: Using Literature In English Language Classroom To Promote Independent Reading
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1) Literature is an important part of education that can foster critical reading skills, build valuable skills, and expand students' worldviews. 2) Using literature in English language classrooms has several benefits, including developing linguistic knowledge, increasing student motivation to interact with texts, and enhancing understanding of foreign cultures. 3) Independent reading, where students choose texts at an appropriate level, allows students to self-select books and spend time reading, which contributes to reading motivation, achievement, and proficiency.
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Make Them Read: Using Literature In English Language Classroom To Promote Independent Reading
- 1. MAKE THEM READ: Using Literature In English Language Classroom To Promote Independent Reading LINTANG KUMALANING ANGKASA | NURUL HIDAYAH PRATAMA Presented in The Third International Language and Language Teaching Conference (LLTC) Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia October 21-22, 2016
- 2. Literature is an important part of education The importance of literature on teaching lies in its ability to foster critical reading, build valuable skills, and expand students' worldviews The use of literature as technique for teaching basic skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (i.e. vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) is very popular within the field of foreign language learning and teaching nowadays.
- 3. Literature offers several benefits to EFL classes Useful in developing linguistic knowledge both on a usage and use level Increase their motivation to interact with a text and thus, ultimately increase their reading proficiency. An ideal vehicle for illustrating language use and for introducing cultural assumptions. Enhance students' understanding of a foreign culture and perhaps “spur their own creation of imaginative works”.
- 4. Literature is also one of good techniques to teach reading Note Should be dynamic, student-centred approach toward comprehension of a literary work !
- 5. What is Independent Reading? Students choose something to read that is at a level of difficulty so they can read fluently and understand what they are reading and it is something that students can do at any time of the day or night in any discipline, rather than just occurring once a day.
- 6. Purpose? Allow students to self-select just-right books on their own and to spend time engaged in reading those books Provide students with choice of independent reading materials contributes to motivation to read and a sense of ownership over their reading (Gambrell, 2011; Guthrie & Humenick, 2004; McRae & Guthrie, 2009) Independent reading time during the school day increases reading achievement and engagement because it helps students enjoy reading, expands their experiences, provides them with context to practice skills such as decoding, and increases their vocabulary (Johnson & Blair, 2003) Why?
- 7. Independent Reading is a critical factor in developing students’ reading proficiency Time spent reading independently positively impacts reading achievement (Allington, 2009; Gambrell et al., 2011; Hiebert & Martin, 2009)
- 8. Implementation of Literature in Engaging Students To Read Poetry Short Story Novel Drama
- 9. “ ” Literature is used to ‘put students in touch with some of the more subtle and varied creative uses of language SHAZU, 2014
- 10. Teacher’s Role in Independent Reading Independence in reading Solitary reading
- 11. Teacher's responsibilities in Independent Reading.. Maintaining Implementing Conferring Planning Using Modelling Franzak (2008:332) an atmosphere conducive to reading; providing ample reading time in class assessments that provide information about students engagement and comprehension with students about their reading mini-lessons with explicit demonstrations that help students learn how to select appropriate texts for independent reading, to sustain their attention while reading independently, and to learn more about processing a variety of texts. brief conferences to scaffold any aspect of the reading process or writing about reading that needs attention so that the student can work independently. engaged reading by reading and sharing personal enthusiasm for books.
- 12. Concluding Remark Though there is a few limitations, literature is viewed as a rich resource for reading activity, it provides a key to motivate them to read texts in English, It is an ideal vehicle for illustrating language use and for introducing cultural assumptions. It opens a wide door for the teachers to implement independent reading time in their class. Teachers still has an important role in implementing independent reading using literature, such as monitoring, facilitating, controlling and guiding in a more convenient way.
- 13. THANK YOU Yogyakarta, 23 October 2016
Editor's Notes
- Literature is an important part of education. But not everyone really thinks about why that is.
- It can be useful in developing linguistic knowledge both on a usage and use level. Secondly, to the extent that students enjoy reading literature, it may increase their motivation to interact with a text and thus, ultimately increase their reading proficiency. It may also enhance students' understanding of a foreign culture and perhaps “spur their own creation of imaginative works”
- As previously explained, we can adjust that literature is also one of good techniques to teach reading. However, please note that teachers should adopt a dynamic, student-centred approach toward comprehension of a literary work.
- Independent reading is a critical factor in developing students’ reading proficiency. This statement supported by several previous studies. Time spent reading independently positively impacts reading achievement (Allington, 2009; Gambrell et al., 2011; Hiebert & Martin, 2009).
- Poetry is a creative way of exposing English language learners to quality literature while teaching reading strategies at the same time. Students can use these short, fun, non-threatening pieces of text to begin to learn how to apply reading strategies to increase their comprehension. the use of a short story seems to be a very helpful technique in today’s foreign language classes. As it is short, it makes the students’ reading task and the teacher’s coverage easier. An important feature of short fiction is its being universal. Put it in another way, students all over the world have experienced stories and can relate to them. Moreover, short fiction, like all other types of literature, makes contribution to the development of cognitive analytical abilities by bringing the whole self to bear on a compressed account of a situation in a single place and moment. the use of drama seems to be an effective technique in today’s communication-based, student-cantered foreign language teaching. Since it is an authentic material, it helps students to promote their comprehension of the verbal / nonverbal aspects of the target language they are trying to master. novel is a very effective way of building vocabulary and developing reading comprehension skills. It is through reading that students broaden their horizons, become familiar with other cultures, and hence develop their intercultural communicative competence, learning how to view the world from different perspectives. The result will be the possession of critical thinking and writing.
- There must be a limitation in using literature in reading activity, however, (read the slide) Because of the benefits of using literature in teaching language skills, the teacher has an important role in teaching English through literature because literary texts can motivate their students to read. So, in the end, the students can be an independent reader.
- We need to know that independency in reading is not the same with solitary reading. Independency, which implies the total freedom of teachers or teaching materials and which is exercised for autonomous behaviour is always conditioned and constrained by inescapable interdependence which means working together with teachers and other learners towards shared goals.
- Though there is a few limitations, literature is viewed as a rich resource for reading activity, it provides a key to motivate them to read texts in English. For all students, literature is an ideal vehicle for illustrating language use and for introducing cultural assumptions. The advantages of using literature in teaching language skills opens a wide door for the teachers to implement independent reading time in their class. Teachers still has an important role in implementing independent reading using literature, such as monitoring, facilitating, controlling and guiding in a more convenient way.