Technology and Literature Teaching - Using Fanfiction to Teach Literary Canon

Nita Novianti

2017

Abstract

Digital technology has created major changes in how people read and write literary works. Fanfiction, as one of the recent phenomena in digital literature, can actually be used to help teachers teach literary canon that is usually very challenging, especially for EFL learners. This paper reports a study on the use of fanfiction in teaching literary canon to the first semester undergraduate students of an English literature program. It delineates the processes involved in the teaching of literary canon using fanfiction, starting from planning, implementation, to evaluation through close-reading and literary analysis tests, observations, and interviews. The findings show that students who have interest in writing are greatly assisted in understanding the literary canon assigned with the writing of fanfiction. However, for students who do not have much interest in writing, using fanfiction does not really help them. Instead, they feel it is more burdensome, for besides having to understand the work, they are also required to write and expand the work in the form of a fanfiction. Nevertheless, both students with and without interest in writing enjoy the teaching and learning process, as they can read various pieces of fanfiction to the literary canon and gain better understanding of the canonical literary works through the group discussion and collaborative works. Fanfiction thus can be made an alternative to teaching literary canon to EFL learners.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Novianti N. (2017). Technology and Literature Teaching - Using Fanfiction to Teach Literary Canon.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 304-308. DOI: 10.5220/0007166403040308

in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Nita Novianti},
title={Technology and Literature Teaching - Using Fanfiction to Teach Literary Canon},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={304-308},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166403040308},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - Technology and Literature Teaching - Using Fanfiction to Teach Literary Canon
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Novianti N.
PY - 2017
SP - 304
EP - 308
DO - 10.5220/0007166403040308