(534) TEACHING LITERATURE IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: NEW OR OLD METHODS?

摘要

This study reconsiders reports that have examined literature for foreign learners. For decades a goodnumber of traditional approaches to literature remained as 'propaganda' and unsuccessful for thereason that they failed to generate a reliable set of proposals as to how a literature 'track' could bedesigned;;more exactly, no clearly-defined role for teaching in universities was provided to meet theneeds of present foreign language learners. Because literature is beginning to be regarded as anappropriate means for language learning and development, there is an urgent need to bring to the foreexamples of classroom procedure and practice in the teaching of literature to look forward to thestudent of the 21st century.In this paper, I have tried to put forward some suggestions related to teaching literature with overseasstudents. What happens in classrooms, has in fact, shown that classroom settings cannot beexplained by a restricted number of methods, but simply by the interaction of many variables, some ofwhich can be openly observed and many of which go beyond linguistic as well as literary theory.