Teaching and Assessment

of Literature Studies
Literature
What is your favorite
literature/story?
 What is the essence of
literature to your profession?
 Literature
• Literature plays a vital role to students in the classroom. It provides
multiple opportunities and experiences for them to grow. Literature
pertains to the ideas, feelings, expressions, emotions, and thoughts in
black and white.
• It really helps develop the language skills of students in speaking,
writing, reading, critical reasoning, appreciating of texts, valuing
education and other abilities and qualities that contribute to the
substantial enhancement and development of students.
• In every successful lesson and application of literature is always
taught by the teachers who have the goals to achieve and that is
learning.
• Teachers apply different methods, strategies, approaches and
procedures or choose effective and appropriate pathways in their
teaching and assessment. It is very useful to use certain of these in
any form of literature in enabling students to improve their language
and literary skills inside and outside the classroom.
 Definitions of Literature
∙ Literature is any form of writing which deals with the significant human
experience – his society and his experiences – which is artistically
conceived for an effect (Malonzo, 2014).

∙ Literature is the enactment of human possibilities, or a vehicle that will

help us discover more about ourselves and the meaning we can make of
life (Malonzo, 2014)

∙ Literature broadly refers to any collection of written or oral work, but it

more commonly and narrowly refers to writings specifically considered to
be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry, in contrast
to academic writing and newspapers (Wikipedia).
Literature as Significant Human Experiences
What defines a piece of writing as great literature? One of the elements that sets
literature apart from writing purely for the purpose of entertainment and escapism is its
commentary on the human condition. The human experience in literature contains themes about
life and society that are relatable to readers. There are endless themes related to the human
experience. Here are the following themes:
∙ parent-child relationship
∙ death
∙ loneliness
∙ conformity
∙ growing up
∙ aging
∙ human rights
∙ charity
∙ equality
∙ materialism
Purposes of Literature

∙ To improve your command of language

∙ To teach you about life, culture, experience of people in other parts
of the world
∙ To give you information about other parts of the world which you may
never be able to visit in your lifetime
∙ To entertain you and provide useful occupation in your free time
Purposes of Literature

∙ To make you a wiser and more experienced person by forcing you to

judge, sympathize with, or criticize the characters you read about
∙ To help you compare your own experience with experiences of other
people
∙ To give you information which may be useful in other subjects, for
example, in Geography, Science, History, Social Studies, and so on