Moeller handout: teaching literature

This article addressed the role literature plays in the foreign language classroom, and the author argues that it is an excellent way to teach the language within the context. It also gives examples of pre reading activities, activities to help with comprehension and building vocabulary as well as expansion activities(such as creative writing or performance of the story) and a way to connect it to the target language culture. I really enjoyed reading the article as well, I found it to be very informative on how to present literature to the class. It made me laugh when at the beginning of the article the author was talking about the "traditional" way of teaching literature which is where the teacher explains the "reading of the text" to the students with no interaction from them because that is exactly how my professor of Latin American lit teaches. I guess in his defense I should let you know that he is 80 years old, and from the looks of it I dont' think he's ha any recent professional development classes to update his teaching methods....