Teaching english literature to english as a second language learners

Panyasi, S

Teaching english literature to english as a second language learners

Panyasi, S

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Panyasi, S
dc.date.accessioned	2015-11-30T23:25:36Z
dc.date.available	2015-11-30T23:25:36Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/39192
dc.description	University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.	en_AU
dc.description.abstract	This thesis reports on a critical action research project aimed at improving teaching and learning in undergraduate English literature courses in the EFL context of Thailand. It addresses the need to adapt the tenets of communicative language teaching to local contexts. The project explores the application of reader-response theory to the teaching of literature with a view to realising its potential to increase the quantity and quality of student talk in the EFL classroom. The underlying assumption was that the reader-response approach, using techniques such as literature circles, would expand the scope of communicative language teaching into literature-based classrooms and also offer the potential to develop the learner independence beyond the classroom. In close collaboration with lecturers, an intervention was designed to introduce literature circles to undergraduate English major classes in two regional universities in Thailand. For this project, data, which included students’ questionnaires, diaries and writing assignment, teachers’ interviews, transcription of lessons, and classroom observation, were collected over one semester. The data analysis applied tools drawn from Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), discourse analysis and thematic analysis. The overall results pointed to enhanced quantity and quality in student L2 production as well as positive responses among participating students and teachers towards the approach. This project provides an example of a teaching and learning model that will enhance target language use within the classroom and develop the independence of learners beyond the classroom. The findings make clear that this literature circle model offers clear opportunities to maximise the unrealised potential of literature classes in Thailand. The research highlights the benefits that accrue from this approach such as building language knowledge and skills, and the provision of the more appropriate levels of cognitive challenge for undergraduate students in language courses.	en_AU
dc.format	Thesis (PhD)
dc.language.iso	en_AU	en_AU
dc.relation	https://opus.lib.uts.edu.au/bitstream/10453/39192/2/02whole.pdf
dc.rights	au.edu.uts.lib/ppc
dc.rights	The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	Teaching English literature.	en
dc.subject	TEFL context of Thailand.	en
dc.subject	Reader-response approach.	en
dc.subject	Literature-based classrooms.	en
dc.title	Teaching english literature to english as a second language learners	en_AU
dc.type	Thesis	en_AU
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

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This thesis reports on a critical action research project aimed at improving teaching and learning in undergraduate English literature courses in the EFL context of Thailand. It addresses the need to adapt the tenets of communicative language teaching to local contexts. The project explores the application of reader-response theory to the teaching of literature with a view to realising its potential to increase the quantity and quality of student talk in the EFL classroom. The underlying assumption was that the reader-response approach, using techniques such as literature circles, would expand the scope of communicative language teaching into literature-based classrooms and also offer the potential to develop the learner independence beyond the classroom. In close collaboration with lecturers, an intervention was designed to introduce literature circles to undergraduate English major classes in two regional universities in Thailand. For this project, data, which included students’ questionnaires, diaries and writing assignment, teachers’ interviews, transcription of lessons, and classroom observation, were collected over one semester. The data analysis applied tools drawn from Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL), discourse analysis and thematic analysis. The overall results pointed to enhanced quantity and quality in student L2 production as well as positive responses among participating students and teachers towards the approach. This project provides an example of a teaching and learning model that will enhance target language use within the classroom and develop the independence of learners beyond the classroom. The findings make clear that this literature circle model offers clear opportunities to maximise the unrealised potential of literature classes in Thailand. The research highlights the benefits that accrue from this approach such as building language knowledge and skills, and the provision of the more appropriate levels of cognitive challenge for undergraduate students in language courses.

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