Aspekty didaktiky cizojazyčné literatury ve výuce cizího jazyka v kontextu kurikulární reformy pro gymnázia

• Main Author: Skopečková, Eva
• Other Authors: Grmelová, Anna
• Format: Doctoral Thesis
• Language: Czech
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-278476

The present dissertation examines certain crucial issues in the field of literature teaching and the use of literature in the foreign language classroom. In particular, it focuses on the specific aspects of the didactics of English literature in the context of the current trends and changes of the Czech grammar school curriculum. Therefore, it explores the relation of literature and education, the question of interpretation and reception of a literary work in connection with the foreign language classroom, which is currently influenced by the new curricular documents. At the research level, the dissertation attempts to find a potentially ideal combination of the disciplines related to this field, i.e. literary scholarship, EFL methodology as well as the outcomes and intentions of the new curricular documents, and searches for new possibilities of the optimal use of English literature in the EFL classroom. The theoretical section consists of three main chapters that correspond to the three main theoretical grounds of the dissertation reflecting the above mentioned disciplines. At first the focus is given to the role of literature in education, its specific position in the foreign language classroom and to the introduction of the basic principles of reception theory and Wolfgang Iser's approach to the...