Critical Literature Pedagogy: A Perspective from an EFL Setting

Muzakki Afifuddin, A. Effendi Kadarisman

2018

Abstract

The paper aims at exploring the existence of Borsheim-Black, Macaluso, and Petrone’s concept of Critical Literature Pedagogy (2014) from the learners’ perspective in an EFL Setting. As a new concept in the teaching of Literature, it aims at encouraging the readers to stand with and against the literary texts. Reading with the literary text means that the readers need to be familiar with the traditional approaches to literature from comprehending storylines to developing thematic interpretation. On the other hand, reading against the literary text challenges readers to reach beyond the text, read between the lines, and discover power promoted and hidden in the text. Within the Literature classrooms in EFL settings, this concept raises several challenges from the learners’ linguistic competence in English and from the learners’ literary competence. This paper then raises the question on the existence of critical literature pedagogy in EFL settings and tries to discover evidence that the EFL learners may have possessed a certain level of critical literacy within the process of reading literary texts. Furthermore, this paper hopefully concludes that Critical Literature Pedagogy may become a standard approach in the teaching of literature in EFL settings that promotes literary analyses that are closer to the learners’ milieu

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Afifuddin M. and Kadarisman A. (2018). Critical Literature Pedagogy: A Perspective from an EFL Setting.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2877-2885. DOI: 10.5220/0009912828772885

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Muzakki Afifuddin and A. Effendi Kadarisman},
title={Critical Literature Pedagogy: A Perspective from an EFL Setting},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2877-2885},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009912828772885},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Critical Literature Pedagogy: A Perspective from an EFL Setting
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Afifuddin M.
AU - Kadarisman A.
PY - 2018
SP - 2877
EP - 2885
DO - 10.5220/0009912828772885