THE CASE OF THE UNPOPULAR LITERATURE MAINSTREAM IN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF FACULTY OF LETTERS AND FINE ARTS, SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY, SURAKARTA  

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Primasita, Fiitria Akhmert ; Susilorini

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013
Topik: common sense; literature; life perspective; abstract; curriculum; teaching-learning process
Fulltext: 30 The Case.pdf (402.19KB)

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This article is written based on a survey conducted to describe the perception of our students towards Literature mainstream. From the students’ perception, it can be deduced that the taken-for-granted ‘common sense’ about ‘Literature’ that literature is of high value can encourage or discourage students to take Literature mainstream. The students might think that analyzing literary texts can help them enrich their life perspective. On the contrary, the students might consider literature as not concrete and abstract, and thus difficult to understand and does not provide the students with the necessary skill and knowledge they need as university graduates. This common sense is difficult to erase. Therefore, the effort to attract the students’ interest to take Literature mainstream is by improving the curriculum and teaching-learning process. The curriculum can be designed to include providing skill and knowledge to prepare the students to become academicians and/or men of letters. If preparing the students to become men of letters is considered ambitious, then at least the curriculum can provide subjects that can give enough opportunity for the students to express their ideas in written forms. Considering that the nowadays young generation is multimediated, the teaching-learning process should take the students as an important variable. It should involve the students in collective activities, not in activities that only give room for individual reflection. It is also highly recommended to use multimedia images that can easily activate all the students’ senses.

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