A Literary Surgery and Pedagogical Treatment to Literature in Language Teaching: Literature in English Language Teaching

·         Explain the role of poetry in the language classroom.

·         Plan lessons, design materials and activities for teaching poetry.

·         Use different poems for the teaching of the English language

1.1 Different forms of poetry

1.1.1 Sonnet

1.1.2 Elegy

1.1.3 Ode

1.1.4 Ballad

1.1.5 Epic

1.1.6 Lyric

1.1.7 Pastoral

1.1.8 Narrative

1.1.9 Romance

1.1.10 Close form versus open form

1.1.11 Words order in a fixed/open poem

1.2 Poetry in a language classroom

1.2.1 Poetry with the language learners

1.2.2 Teaching unusual language features

1.2.3 Poetry in the lower level

1.2.4 Poetry in the higher level

1.3 Planning lesson and designing materials for teaching poetry

1.4 Activities for teaching poetry

1.4.1 Pre-reading activities

1.4.2 While-reading activities

1.4.3 Post-reading activities

1.5 Sample poems

·   I am becoming my mother by Loma Goodison

·   Mek Four by John Agard

·   An introduction by Kamala Das

·   Letter from Mama Dot by Fred D’aguiar

·   The Fisherman Mourned by His Wife by Patrick Fernando

·   Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

·   Atman by Robert Goslin

·   Children by Kahlil Gibran

·   To Autumn by John Keats

·   Certainty by Octavio Paz

·   The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats

·   Meditation by Teilhard De Chardin

·   Sonnet No. 5 by Laxami Prasad Devkota

·   Nursery Rhyme by  Gunter Grass

·   The Road not Taken by Robert Frost

·   The Watcher by James Stephens

·   Memory by Siegfried Sasoon

·   The Wind of Chaitra by Krishna Bhushan Bal

·   The Kerosene Stove by Homraj Acharya

·   Visiting a Country Churchyard by Gopi Sapkota

·   At the Temple by Prakash Subedi.

·         Explain the dramatic conventions and their units

·         Analyse the structure and forms of drama.

·         Explain the role of drama in the language classroom

·         Plan lessons and activities for teaching drama.

·         Use different dramas for the teaching of the English language.

2.1 Elements of Drama

2.1.1 Plot

2.1.2 Character

2.1.3 Dialogue

2.1.4 Setting

2.1.5 Conflict

2.1.6 Theme

2.2 Types of Drama

2.2.1 Tragedy

2.2.2 Comedy

2.2.3 Tragi-Comedy

2.2.4 Farce

2.3 Dramatic Conventions

2.3.1 Dialogue

2.3.2 Monologue

2.3.3 Soliloquy

2.3.4 Asides

2.4 Unities of Drama

2.4.1 Unity of time

2.4.2 Unity of place

2.4.3 Unity of action

2.5 Five-fold structure of drama

2.5.1 Initial incidence

2.5.2 Rising action

2.5.3 Climax

2.5.4 Falling action

2.5.5 Catastrophe/resolution

2.6 Popular forms of drama

2.6.1 One-act plays

2.6.2 Three-act plays

2.6.3 Five-act plays

2.6.4 Other forms

2.7 Drama in the language classroom

2.7.1 Drama as language of conversation

2.7.2 Use of extract for oral performacne

2.7.3 Role playing

2.7.4 Dialects and idiolects

2.8 Planning lessons and designing materials for teaching drama

2.9 Sample dramas

·         Mother figure by Alan Ayckbourn

·         The dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter

·         A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

·         Explain the importance of short stories in the language classroom.

·         Plan lessons and activities for teaching short stories

·         Use different short stories for teaching English.

3.1 Elements of short story

3.1.1 Plot

3.1.2 Character

3.1.3 Setting

3.1.4 Style

3.1.5 Theme

3.2 Short story in the language classroom

3.2.1 Planning lessons and designing materials for teaching short story

3.2.2 Activities for teaching short story

·         Pre-reading activities

·         While-reading activities

3.2.3 Sample short stories

·         Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl

·         Home landing by Margaret Atwood

·         The Little Mermaid by Hans Christen Anderson

·         A Fruitful sunday by Agatha Christie

·         Tuesday Siesta by Gabrief Garcia Marquz

·         The Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges

·         Martha by Kahlil Gibran

·         The Lady in the looking glass by Virginiya Wolf

·         Enemy by V.S. Naipal

·         Vanka by Anton Chakhov

·         The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

·         The Whale by Witi Lhimaera

·         Five Fingers by Lee Kok Liang

·         Myself in India by Ruth Prawer ray bradbury

·         There will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

·         Hem Subba at Pann by Dhruba Chandra Gautam (Tran. Manjushree Thapa)

·         The little Islands of Happiness by Vishun S. Rai.

·         Explain the importance of novels in the language classroom.

·         Plan lessons and activities for teaching novels.

·         Use different novels.

·         Use different novels for teaching English.

4.1 Elements of Novel

4.1.1 Plot

4.1.2 Character

4.1.3 Setting

4.1.4 Style

4.1.5 Theme

4.2 Novel in the language classroom

4.2.1 Briefing the story

4.2.2 Pointing at the cultural gaps

4.2.3 Retelling the narrative from different angles

4.2.4 Planning lesson and designing for teaching novel

4.3 Activities for teaching novel

4.3.1 Pre-reading activities

4.3.2 While-reading activities

4.3.3 Post-reading activities

4.4 Sample text for novel

4.4.1 Novel extracts

·         Extract 1. The catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

·         Extract 2. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

4.4.2 Novels

·         What Katy did by Susan Coolidge

·         To Kill a Mockingbird by Nelle Harper Lee

5.1 Elements of essay

5.2 Essay in the language classroom

5.3 Planning lesson and designing materials for teaching essay

5.4 Activities for teaching essay

5.4.1 Pre-reading activities

5.4.2 While-reading activities

5.4.3 Post-reading activities

5.5 Sample Essays

·         The Centre of Nowhere by Barbara Ras

·         On Italian Time by Mary Morris

·         Ulysses by James Joyee

·         Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

·         On writing by Sangeet Sharma.

·         Postmodernism and the Art of Identity by Christopher Read

·         Introduction to Siddhartha by Ralph Freedman.

·         Autobiographical notes by James Baldwin

·         A Day in Samoa by Margaret Mead

·         Niagara Falls by Rupert Brooke

·         A Word for Autumn by A.A. Milne

·         City of the Dead: A City of the Living by Nadine Gordimer

·         In the night by Jamaica Kincaid

·         The Seventh and Other days by Epeli Hau ‘Ofa’

·         Marigolds by Subramani

·         Left for Dead by Cathy Free

·         The Remains of the Feast by Githa Hariharan

·         A Journey to the Aesthetic Shrine by GR Bhattarai

·         In Praise of the Himalaya by Bharat Prasad Dhital

6.1 Psychoanalytic criticism

6.2 Marxists Criticism

6.3 Feminist Criticism

6.4 Reader-response criticism

6.5 Structuralist criticism

6.6 Deconstructive criticism

6.7 Cultural criticism

6.8 Post-colonial criticism

6.9 Postmodern criticism