Diana Hwang, Diana Hwang and Embi, Mohamed Amin
(2007)
Approaches Employed By Secondary School
Teachers To Teaching The Literature
Component In English.
The Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly known as Journal of Educators and Education), 22 (1).
pp. 1-23.
ISSN 2289-9057
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to report on findings of a study designed to
identify approaches employed by teachers to teaching the literature component in selected
secondary schools in Sabah. The study was conducted in 15 urban secondary schools in
Sandakan, Sabah with a population of 112 English teachers. The approaches and
activities conducted in the literature lesson were identified whilst the reasons to why
teachers employed the approaches and activities were explicated. Triangulation involving
the questionnaire as the primary data, classroom observation and focused interview as the
secondary data was used. A total of 87 teachers responded to the questionnaire; whereas,
in a related case study, an English option teacher (a TESL graduate) and a non-option
teacher (a History graduate) were observed for four weeks and then be interviewed.
Findings show that the paraphrastic approach (mean = 4.05) is popularly used by
teachers, followed by the information-based approach (mean = 4.04) and the moralphilosophical approach (mean = 3.93). This seems to go concurrently with the findings of
the case study whereby both teachers exhibited similar teaching approaches. The findings
draw attention to the fact that teaching approaches are largely influenced by students'
language proficiency, attitudes, the exam-oriented culture, the prescribed literary
materials and the number of students in the classroom. The implication is that literature
teaching which aims at generating students' personal response and appreciation maybe a
futile exercise if the issues are not tackled wisely
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