Approaches to Reading and Literary Texts in Teaching...

Table of contents Introduction 3 1. The concepts of literacy, reading comprehension and literary competence. 4 1.1. The importance of literacy, reading comprehension and literary competence. 4 1.2. The importance of literacy, reading comprehension, literary competence and literature in teaching English as a foreign language. 6 2. Past approaches until the second half of the 20th century. 7 2.1. Analysis of the past methods with reading and literature in view. 8 2.2. The shift in the attitude towards reading and literary texts in teaching English as a foreign language. 11 3. Modern approaches – introduction to Communicative Language Teaching. 12 3.1. CLT analysis in the context of reading,†¦show more content†¦Comprehension is a â€Å"construction process† because it involves all of the elements of the reading process working together as a text is read to create a representation of the text in the reader’s mind ( ¶1). Finally, literary competence is defined by Brumfit and Carter (1996) as follows: Literary education is seen by many as the inculcation in students of the kind of sensitivity to literature which allows discrimination of the ‘good’ from the ‘bad’. When we have achieved defined capacities of judgment, then we have acquired a literary competence†¦ (p. 16). 1.1. The importance of literacy, reading comprehension and literary competence. In the era of television, the Internet and computer games, the role of literature as a source of entertainment is rapidly declining. One has to admit that watching television or surfing the Internet is easier for a tired mind that to read a book or a magazine which requires some attention, imagination and preferably reflection. 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