수잔 쿠퍼(Susan Cooper)의 『그림자의 왕』(King of Shadows)을 활용한 셰익스피어와 미래 고교영어교육

Abstract

This paper aims at exploring the felicitous encounter between English Literature and EFL high school Education by introducing the case of ‘English American Novel’ class for Korean sophomore students in English Education, the College of Education. Most of all, it purposes to show how teaching Shakespeare in EFL high school class can be actualized with a readable text for EFL high school learners, a young adult novel, Susan Cooper’s King of Shadows. The novel well represents Shakespeare, his works, especially, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, sonnet 116, and Elizabethan times. This paper argues that teaching King of Shadows to high school students carries the desirable educational value for future high school English education because of the novel’s comprehensive connection to other school subjects such as history, ethics, psychology, biology, and even, architecture. In order to investigate the proper application of the novel and its benefit resulting from introducing to students, this paper provides the close explication of class procedure―students’ presentation of story line, discussion of issues and topics relevant to the novel, and final presentation of class plan imagined in high school class. (Kongju National University)