ERIC Number: EJ1410603
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1554-480X
EISSN: EISSN-1554-4818
Literature in Language Education: Exploring Teachers' Beliefs, Practices, Creativity, and Literary Competence
Pedagogies: An International Journal, v19 n1 p80-98 2024
Given the growing movement in support of blurring the divisions between language and literature teaching, it has become increasingly vital to understand what language teachers think of literature as a language resource, the approaches they employ when teaching with it, the extent to which they can appreciate, understand, analyse, and interpret literary texts, that is, their literary competence, and whether certain traits predict such competence. Yet, research into the use of literature in language education has been primarily concerned with learners rather than teachers. This article reports on an online questionnaire-based study that explored the creativity, orientations towards literature, teaching approaches, and beliefs regarding literature of 170 language teachers in Central Asia and how these elements predicted their literary competence. Participants worked at universities in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan and were teaching Chinese, English, French, German, Russian, and Spanish as foreign languages. The findings revealed that their reading habits and creativity statistically significantly predicted their literary competence while their selection of texts was partly at odds with their professed orientations towards literature.
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Chinese, English (Second Language), French, German, Russian, Spanish, Reading Habits, Prediction, Reading Material Selection, Literature, Creativity
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Uzbekistan
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