[etni] Fw: literature
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- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:15:21 +0300
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From: byk - byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I think that Chaya Ovnat has expressed perfectly why there should be
reservations about the HOTS /literature or literature /HOTS program, and
Esther Revivo has once again pointed out the problems it poses in practice.
I love books and literature. My family and I have just spent a good part of
Saturday going over Browning's My Last Duchess, and Donne's 'Death Be Not
Proud', but I don't think we have the time or the necessity to do this sort
of thing with the average pupil, because, though I hate to say this, it does
come at the expense of learning basic English , Chaya's "essential
prerequisites."
This is not to say that average or weak students should not be taught
literature, but it must be carefully chosen, and certainly not through
meta-learning, and not at the expense of learning the language. This is not
Europe, where language learning is often more of an acquaintance with how
foreign languages work, so that it will ease study at a later point in life
of a particular language. Here, our pupils need to know the actual
language, and I sometimes think that MOE has forgotten this.
Jennifer Byk
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