Why Teach Literature?

1. Why teach literature?

2. Difficult
Riddle:
If you don’t keep me, I'll
break. What am I?
Moderate
Riddle:
It belongs to you, but
your friends use it more.
What is it?
Easy
Riddle:
I have a tail and a
head, but no body. What
am I?
Brainteaser

3. Activity: Feelinekoto
Sirain man tayo ng Bagyo
Tadhana man ang Maglayo
Humarang man si Adolfo
Sayo lang ako
Oh, laura ko

4. What is literature? (Cruz,
2018)
-Literature is a rich source of "authentic material"
since it promotes two characteristics in its written
text: language in use and aesthetic representation.
- Language in use, that is, the application of
linguistics by those who have excelled it into a
fashion intended for native speakers.
-Aesthetic representation is the spoken language
which is intended to represent language within a
certain cultural context.

5. Relevance of Nation Literary Form
(Ambon, 2016)
Linguistic.
In terms of language
acquisition and learning,
literary texts offer
samples of a very wide
range of styles, registers,
and text types at many
levels of difficulty.
Methodological.
Readers can have different
opinions and ideas about
a variety of topics. This
provides learners an
opportunity to engage in
genuine interaction and
develop their critical
thinking.

6. Relevance of Nation Literary Form
(Ambon, 2016)
Motivational.
Literary texts are non-trivial since they deal with
matters which concerned the writer enough to make
him or her write about them. In this they are unlike
many other forms of language teaching inputs, which
frequently trivialize experience in the service of
pedagogy. Literary texts touch on themes to which
learners can bring a personal response from their
own experience.

7. Definitions of literature which served as the
criteria for choosing the representa-
tive writings in Filipino Literature in English.
According to Serrano and Ames:
Filipino Literature regardless of the language in which it is
written expresses the Filipino soul, national traditions,
customs and cultural values which are so in-grained in a
people that no super-imposition of foreign cultural patterns
can completely eradicate them.
According to Webster‟s Dictionary:
Literature covers all the writings of a particular country, time,
kind, etc. especially those valued for excellence of form and
expression.

8. Some viewpoints on Literature include
the following:
1. We can get the meaning of a piece of literature by having
lived it because literature is a
product of and about life.
2. Life illumines literature just as literature illumines life.
3. Literary forms (which refer to a writer‟s way of saying
things) exist because writers have fashioned them to serve
their needs.
4. The distinguishing marks of literature are humanization
and vivid concretization and some adjectives that would
describe it are imaginative, creative, interpretative and
selective.

9. Group
Activity:
Using the word
LITERATURE, formulate
a sentence that
emphasizes the
significance of literature
in teaching Elementary
Learners.
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10. "What is wonderful about great
literature is that it transforms the man
who reads it towards the condition of
the man who wrote."
-E. M. Forster