Literature Textbooks Research Articles

Obraz historie vlasti v českých a polských učebnicích

This article aims to compare the presentation of national history in Czech and Polish literature textbooks for pupils from the first grade to the end of secondary school. Looking at history as a phenomenon will help to better understand the presentation of specific historical events. Comparisons will be made using discursive analysis.

Teaching short prose works by N. Akish as the basis for the formation of national values of the child's personality

  In this article, the story "Where is the real grandma?" by N. Akhysh in the 5th grade Kazakh literature textbook is analyzed from a methodological point of view and the problem of teaching based on national values is considered. In the work family values are clearly revealed and subgroup names are based on national names as well. In order to make the lesson interesting according to age characteristics, first of all, by playing games, it is connected with the items used by grandmas when tasks are given. According to the phrase of recognizing the meaning during the lesson, the tasks related to revealing the image of the characters in the story and evaluating them in comparison with life are also connected with concepts close to national knowledge. Working with the text, effective and new methods to reveal the image of the characters are thoroughly considered. It has been proven that a granny’s image can be fully revealed using the "clamp method". By choosing the national clothes worn by grandmothers, such as kamzol, shapan, waistcoat, kimeshek, jewelry it is studied how the writer can help learners find the image of a real grandmother that the characters are looking for. Techniques to give importance to the author's opinion and give learners the opportunity to express their own critical opinion are rationalized. Methods associated with national dishes such as Nauryz kozhe and shelpek also greatly contribute to the achievement of the lesson's aim. The main thing is that the obtained methods are not only based on national values but also contribute to national education. Approbation of the methods was carried out in the gymnasium named after M.Makataev No. 140 in Almaty, 58 schoolchildren participated in the work. Keywords: teaching methodology; method; national values, critical thinking, national dress, skills; modern Kazakh stories.

The Reception of Wuthering Heights in China: English-Chinese Translation, Dissemination, and Adaptation

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has been translated, disseminated, and adapted for various Chinese audiences. This study employed historical and archival research methods to probe this phenomenon. We retrieved data from Wuthering Heights and its Chinese-translated versions, children’s literature works, monographs, academic papers from China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and comments from the Douban Movie website. First, the researchers investigated Wuthering Heights’ translation in China from monographs and academic papers to explore the features of representative Chinese-translated versions. Second, the researchers explored Wuthering Heights’ dissemination in foreign literature education and literary study in China by analyzing the literature textbooks and academic papers. Third, the researchers examined the features of children’s literature works adapted from Wuthering Heights and the comments viewers made on the films adapted from the novel. The researchers found that the past nine decades witnessed the successful reception of Wuthering Heights in China for four reasons. First, the policies in the literary field contributed to its translation. Second, the reviews of the work in British literature textbooks and academic studies promoted the original text’s dissemination. Third, disseminating the movie adaptations enables more Chinese readers to know the classic, contributing to the original text’s dissemination. Fourth, the transmission of the children’s extracurricular bilingual reading material adapted from it gave Chinese teenagers a chance to know the novel’s plot and enhanced their reading ability, promoting the dissemination of Wuthering Heights in China.

Preface: Shakespeare and Milton

Preface: Shakespeare and Milton

학교 밖 성장과 자기긍정의 기록 -2015 개정 문학교과서에 수록된 장편 성장소설을 중심으로-

본고에서는 2015 개정 문학교과서에 수록된 장편 성장소설 중에서 2000년대를 살아가는 청소년의 삶을 다룬 작품들을 분석의 대상으로 삼아, 청소년 주인공들이 학교가 아닌 대안공간들에서 다양한 여가활동에 참여하면서 내적으로 성장하고 자기를 긍정해 가는 양상을 밝히고자 한다. 『완득이』 속 주인공은 체육관에서 상호적인 관계 맺기를 배운 후 자신의 삶을 스스로 구성해 나가겠다는 의지를 다지고, 『소년을 위로해줘』의 주인공은 친구들과 취향을 공유하면서 길 위에서 자기를 탐색하는 시간을 갖는다. 또한 건강이 좋지 않은 『두근두근 내 인생』의 주인공은 병원에서 죽음을 기다리며 부모님뿐 아니라 자신에게도 위로가 되는 이야기를 짓는다. 마지막으로 감정 표현 불감증 진단을 받은 『아몬드』의 주인공은 헌책방에서 홀로 책을 읽으며 자신 안에 숨겨져 있던 감정들을 발견한다. 2000년대 이후에 창작된 장편 성장소설들 속에서 동일성과 표준화를 추구하는 학교는 청소년들의 성장과 거리가 있는 공간으로 주로 재현된다. 그래서 이 시기에 창작된 성장소설의 주인공들은 학교 안에서 학업에 열중하기보다는 학교 밖의 대안공간들에서 자신의 취향에 맞는 여가활동에 참여하면서 다양한 사람들을 만나고 자기를 긍정할 수 있는 힘을 기른다. 이러한 자기긍정의 서사는 여전히 획일성을 강요받고 과잉 경쟁 속에 놓여 있는 청소년들의 삶을 사실적으로 그려내면서도, 그 안에서 새로운 삶의 가능성을 모색한다는 점에서 의의를 지닌다.

The Current Situation and Counter Measures of Compilation of English Literature Textbooks in the Context of New Liberal Arts

The Current Situation and Counter Measures of Compilation of English Literature Textbooks in the Context of New Liberal Arts

Literature Textbook for 6th Graders in Relation to Developing Language Skills for Vietnamese Students

Literature Textbook for 6th Graders in Relation to Developing Language Skills for Vietnamese Students

Penggunaan Gaya Bahasa dalam Teks Narasi pada Buku Pelajaran Bahasa dan Sastra Makassar Siswa SMP/MTs

This research is a qualitative descriptive study which aims to examine the language style in the narrative text used in Makassar language and literature textbooks for SMP / MTs students using stylistics (language styles). The data source used in this study was the narrative text in Makassar language and literature textbooks for grade IX students of SMP / MTs. The results of this study get the types of language styles based on comparative language styles, namely personification language styles, symbolic language styles, synekdoke language styles, association language styles, methanemical language styles, and euphemism language styles: language styles based on affirmation language styles, namely polisendeton language styles. , asidenton language style, climax language style, repetition language style, anti-climax language style, and litotes language style; and language style based on satire style, namely cynicism and sarcasm.Keywords: Usage, Language Style, Narrative Text

Role of Rasayana dravyas from Madanpal Nighantu in enhancing the overall human immunity – A critical review

We are continuously fighting with the pandemic of COVID-19 from last 3 years. Also other infections like Common cold, Severely Acute Viral Infections (SARS), Influenza (the flu), Herpes, Tuberculosis, Whooping cough, Pneumonia, Typhoid are some of the very common and recurring infections in human beings. Having strong immunity and destroying the main causes of various infections is the only option to survive in such conditions. It is a need to get familiar with natural herbs or dravyas from Ayurveda. Dravyas suggested in Ayurveda, which can boost immunity and thus, can protect us from various infections. In Ashtang Ayurveda, Rasayana is a special branch of Ayurveda. It promotes the inner healing power of an individual and thus can become helpful in overtaking the symptoms and diseases while promoting the immunity. Madanpal Nighantu is one of our ancient literature textbook of Ayurveda which provides information about multiple important herbal and ayurvedic drugs. In Madanpal Nighantu, 35 dravyas are explained as Rasayana dravyas in sutras. So, screening of Rasayana dravyas from Madanpal Nighantu can provide useful information to medical practitioners. These Rasayana dravyas can ultimately become useful in healthy individuals and in patients suffering from various infections or diseases in maintaining and enhancing their natural immunity. By considering all these facts, we made an effort to find out and study all these Rasayana dravyas from Madanpal Nighantu having Rasayana properties. Also this paper makes an attempt to study Rasapanchkas of these Rasayana dravyas to assess their probable mode of action as Rasayana.

An Investigation into the Phenomenon of Morphological Conversion in Current Textbooks of English and Vietnamese Literature for High Schools

Conversion is a common phenomenon in both languages which are English and Vietnamese, especially in terms of morphology. The study investigates the phenomenon of morphological conversion in current English and Vietnamese Literature textbooks for High schools. Based on those survey results, the authors analyzed the similarities and differences of this phenomenon between the two disciplines to propose appropriate teaching methods when encountering it in the teaching process. The research used the inductive method to synthesize theories from available data about the phenomenon of conversion and the survey approach to analyze the conversion phenomenon density in the English and Vietnamese Literature books statistically at the high school level. Finally, the comparative method was used to point out the similarities and differences between the above phenomena in the textbooks of the two subjects. From the collected data, this study showed that the phenomenon of conversion in the textbooks of English and Literature has occurred. Through the research paper, the authors would like to give some notes and suggestions on appropriate teaching methods for high school teachers when encountering this phenomenon in the teaching process.

Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age

Literature in Dialect: The Great Absentee

Prose production in dialect is probably the big absentee in Arabic literature textbooks. While poetry in dialect has managed to carve its own small space in textbooks on the history of Arabic literature, the same does not go for novels or short stories written in ‘āmmiyya. Most critics, especially Arabs, do not acknowledge their literary dignity. However, scholars of contemporary Arabic literature can no longer avoid seriously analysing Egyptian literature in ‘āmmiyya. In fact, in the course of the last two decades, the number of novels and short stories in Egyptian dialect has significantly increased. Furthermore, writing in dialect is increasingly widespread thanks to personal blogs and websites. In light of this emerging panorama in Arabic literature, the question is whether something is changing in relation to the acceptance of dialect as a literary language and if the time has come for literature in dialect to find its own place in literary textbooks.

Międzywojenne podręczniki historii literatury i ich obudowa dydaktyczna. O sposobach zaciekawienia uczniów lekturą i sterowania jej odbiorem

The author of this article discusses the ways in which the authors of the history of literature textbooks from the years 1918 to 1939 attempted, by means of the didactic framework, to make students interested in the readings and to steer their reception. This was to improve teenagers’ engagement with literary works. For this purpose, the author examines selected school books, analysing the content of their didactic framework from her point of interest. The paper concludes with a summary that points out the weaknesses and strengths of the methods identified in the textbooks, which were adopted to make students interested in reading and to control their reception of it.

War in the Young Russians Language Consciousness: An Associative Experiment

The article is focused on the analysis of the stimulus The Great Patriotic War based on the data of both directed and free associative experiments, held among the young Russians aged 18-23, the students of the Philological faculty of RUDN University. The aim of this research is to study the ordinary language consciousness of common speakers of the Russian linguoculture through the prism of their attitude to the Great Patriotic War as a cultural phenomenon. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the experimental data allow us conclude about the mediated perception of the Great Patriotic War by young Russians, who have knowledge about the war from secondary sources: fiction and documentary films, history and literature textbooks. On the material of these associative experiments, the experimental associative fields are formed, which could potentially become a part of the associative dictionary of the contemporary Russian younger generation. In the course of the study, semantic crossings are revealed between the lexical units of the formed associative fields and the data from Russian associative dictionaries. A comparative analysis of the data from RAD and the two experiments is conducted, demonstrating minimal matching of reactions (12.5%) in the RAD and the experiments, with a higher percentage of matching reactions in the directed and free experiments (56.6%). The reactions to the stimulus Great Patriotic War obtained as a result of the experiment are semantically grouped, and their further interpretation represents a fragment of the young Russian's language consciousness regarding the events of the Great Patriotic War. Thus, semantic analysis allows us to distribute the received reactions into several semantic groups: evaluation of the events of the past; WWII as part of family history; WWII as the distant past; WWII as a reason for pride; WWII as a joint social phenomenon in the cultural context; the events and realities of that war.

World Literature and Translation in Persian Literature Textbooks

Abstract Persian literature textbooks, designed, compiled, and distributed by a state bureau run by the Ministry of Education, Organization for Educational Research and Planning, also have sections on the theory and practice of translating world literature. The current study deals with those passages, how they are represented and how they are consequently interpreted in the light of Venuti’s conceptualization of domesticating and foreignizing translation. It is aimed to understand the status, significance, and visibility of translators in the corpus under study. The results of content analysis for the five high school literature textbooks (grades 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12) indicate a strong sense of domestication and appropriation by the compilers of the textbooks. The following strategies are recognized to have the largest share in the textbooks: no mention of the name of the translator, Iranization, and appropriation. The strategies are followed by samples for each theme. The paper concludes that the polyphonic world promised to be achieved by studying foreign and world literature is not, therefore, attained in such a context, as the emphasis is ultimately on the target ideologies and worldviews. The study also sheds doubt on the assumption that domestication is confined to the so-called imperialistic cultures like the Anglo-American.

ECO-CULTURAL EDUCATION FOR LOWER SECONDARY STUDENTS - A PERSPECTIVE FROM INTERDISCIPLINARY EDUCATION (PRELIMINARY SURVEY BASED ON GRADE 6 LITERATURE TEXTBOOKS FROM “CONNECTING KNOWLEDGE TO LIFE” SERIES)

As the deteriorating global ecological environment is affecting the long-term survival of humans, eco-cultural education for students is more urgent than ever. The article aims to study the interdisciplinary combination of literature and ecology for eco-cultural education at a lower secondary stage. From the basic knowledge of eco-culture, the article defines the goal, contents and methods of organizing eco-cultural education at lower secondary schools. The article also provides a preliminary assessment and survey of the integration of eco-cultural education into the teaching of Literature based on the Grade 6 Literature textbooks from the “Connecting Knowledge to Life” series.

Developing the Children's Literature Teaching Materials Based on Wisdom of Local Area to Improve the Students’ Learning Outcomes

This research aims to develop the teaching material products in the form of children's literature text books based on the wisdom of local area. This research method uses a Research and Development (R&D) using the ADDIE development model to develop the teaching materials for the children's literature based on wisdom of local area (North Sumatra) which consists of the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation stages. The sample in this study was the fifth grade students of SD (primary school) of Swasta Muhammadiyah 12 Medan in Medan. The results proved that the students’ learning outcomes in children's literature increased after using teaching materials based on local area wisdom (North Sumatra). The average score of the students before using teaching materials was 68, meanwhile the average value of the students after using teaching materials was 82. The test scores for the children's literature appreciation learning outcomes obtained an average score of 79.2. The results of the calculation through the t test by using SPSS test showed a significant result before and after using the teaching materials. It can be concluded that the teaching materials for the children's literature based on local area wisdom (North Sumatra) are appropriate for the students to use.

사회정의 관점의 다문화 교육을 위한 제재 타당성 검토 - 고등학교 문학 교과서 수록 소설 작품을 중심으로

이 연구는 사회정의 교육의 관점에서 고등학교 문학 교과서에 수록된 다문화 소설 제재의 타당성을 검토하려는 목적으로 수행되었다. Picower (2012)가 제안한 다문화 사회정의 교육의 여섯 단계를 핵심범주로 삼아 교과서에 수록된 소설 5편의 타당성을 분석한 결과, 현재의 제재들은 주로 1~3단계에 집중되어 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 자아(정체성), 배려, 존중 등의 개인적 차원에 치우침으로써 다문화 사회의 실제적 문제를 소략하게 다루거나, 다문화 사회정의의 문제를 ‘사랑’과 같은 보편적 문제로 접근함으로써 문화적 차이로부터 기인하는 사회적 문제의 특수성을 제대로 다루지 못하는 것이다. 교과서에서 안내문이나 학습 활동을 통해 제재의 한계를 부분적으로 보완하기도 하나, 이러한 항목들이 지닌 효과가 교사나 교수·학습 맥락에 따라 상이할 수 있다는 점에서 앞으로 더 고민할 지점이 있다.<BR> 이 연구는 개인적 차원에 주로 맞추어지던 기존 다문화 교육의 초점을 사회적으로 확장하였다는 점에서 의의를 찾을 수 있다.

Reflection on the Significance of Kristijonas Donelaitis and His Works in the Lithuanian Press. Efforts to Commemorate Poet's 200th Birth Anniversary

On the eve of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Kristijonas Donelaitis (January 1, 1914), in Lithuania ruled by the Russian Empire, the press of the National Democrats and Liberal Democrats covered the efforts to erect a monument in honor of the poet (the idea arose in Lithuania Minor). It criticized the work of the committee that was in charge of the initiative, which was led by conservatives. The Catholic press was very reserved in its coverage of the initiatives of the memorial. The confessional aspect of the imagined Lithuanian national identity also hindered the involvement in a project that would unite the entire nation. In Russian-administered Lithuania, the emphasis was more on publications introducing Donelaitis’s personality and works. In the beginning of 1914, Kristijonas Duonelaitis’s Writings compiled by Jurgis Šlapelis was published in Vilnius; however, no public organization or institution sponsored the book. The difficulties in organizing activities to commemorate Donelaitis experienced by the Lithuanian Scientific Society testify to the fact that the poet had not yet been perceived as a national poet in Lithuania, and that there was a lack of coordinated work. In Russian ruled Lithuania, the articles and papers about Donelaitis by Juozas Gabrys Paršaitis, Mykolas Biržiška, Petras Leonas, Ignas Jurkūnas-Seinius, and Pranas Dovydaitis were overdue.With the outbreak of the war, the ambitions of the Catholic press to introduce the legacy of Donelaitis began to emerge. Some of the texts were used during the World War I for the purpose of Lithuanian cultural education. The studies of Gabrys-Paršaitis and Biržiška became an important part of the first literature textbooks of the Republic of Lithuania.

Methodology of literary text approaches in high schools analysis and models

In this paper we have reviewed and analyzed literature textbooks at the pre-university level, respectively in the high school. In this research we have examined the way these texts are analyzed (the pedagogical apparatus as it is otherwise called). Such work is done considering the requirements of the latter to fulfill certain competencies provided by the program on which the text is drafted. The method we used is based on two parallel directions. One is about the comparison of the required competencies and those realized in the pedagogical apparatus of the textbooks of different publishing houses, which have gained the right to be part of the textbooks that can be selected by different schools for the treatment of the subject of literature. This is seen according to the rubrics provided by the program, those currently implemented, and the competencies suggested by us, which we do not see implemented by the first two. In parallel, we have identified the problems in terms of simple text analysis, in a stylistic, pragmatic-reflective plane, giving our suggestions for each case. About 80% of the textbooks show problems with the way the rubrics are constructed and almost 90% of the rubrics are constructed with questions that may go beyond the rubric topic. The paper is accompanied by a concrete example of text analysis suggested to the professional network of literature teachers. This model is based on the experience of Italian and French textbooks.