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COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

SYNTHESIS IN DETERMINING THE APPROACHES TO TEACHING LITERATURE

(COMPETENCY 2)

In partial fulfillment in PCPE4 CN 5623, The Teacher and School Curriculum

By:

GROUP 2

MARY ANN AGAN

MELENCIO AHIT
ALONDRA L. FORMENTERA

To:

JEFFREY B. JARANTILLA

February 21, 2023

After the 1st reporter who discuss the Models in Teaching Literature, the group of
competency 2: Determining the approaches to Teaching Literature started the report
through a motivation led by Ms. Formentera. The title of the motivation is: You complete
me before the group of competency 2 will start the discussion proper. She ask for Sir
Jeff’s permission to allow the class to use vernacular to allow students to participate and
express themselves during their motivation. The instruction is that each student will give
one sentence in order for the class to create a story through verbal used in order to
create a literary piece.

Afterwards, she introduced the topic in which she presented the models of literature and
the approaches under every model.

Models in Teaching Literature

1. The Cultural Model
2. The Language Model
3. The Personal-Growth Model

Approaches of Literature

1. Information Based Approach (Thunnithet, 2011)

2. Paraphrastic Approach (Thunnithet,2011)
3. Stylistic Approach (Thunnithet,2011)
4. Language-Based Approach (Rashid, Vethamani, &Rahman, 2010)
5. Personal-Response Approach (Rashid, Vethamani, &Rahman, 2010)
6. Moral-Philosophical Approach (Hwang & Embi, 2007)

After introducing the model and it’s approaches, she gave the floor to Ms. Agan to
discuss the cultural model.

Cultural Model
 A model that views a literary text as a product This means that it is treated as a source
of information about the target culture.
Information Based Approach
 This approach is teacher-centered approach. The input in giving student's
various contents of literary text like on historical, political, and cultural and social
background.
After Ms. Agan discuss the cultural model and it’s approach, she pass the facilitation of
discussion to Ms. Formentera to discuss the language model and it’s approaches.

Language Model

 The model is a source of information about the target culture. It is the most
traditional approach, often used in university courses on literature.

Paraphrastic Approach
It is primarily paraphrasing and rewording the text to simpler language or use other
languages to translate it.

Stylistic Approach

It is an approach that implies literary critics and linguistics analysis. It is for students to
appreciate and understand the literary text in a deeper manner.

Language- Based Approach

It helps students pay attention to the way the language is used when studying literature.
It student-centered and activity-based for productive use of language.

After Ms. Formentera discuss the language model and it’s approaches, she pass the
facilitation of discussion to Mr. Ahit to discuss the personal growth model and it’s
approaches.

Personal Growth Model

A model that encourages students to voice their own opinions regarding the text. It is
also student-centered; it also provides interaction between reader and text.

Personal-Response Approach

This pproach encourages students to make sense of their experiences and personal
lives with text hemes, it also promotes students to associate the subject matters of the
reading texts with personal life experiences.

Moral-Philosophical Approach

Learners seek moral values from a particular literary text while reading it. It helps
students to be aware of moral and philosophical values and identify them.

After Mr. Ahit reports about the Personal-Growth Model, Ms. Formentera gave a
summary about what had been discuss and ask the class about what they have learned
from the second competency afterwards the class was dismissed by Prof. Jarantilla.