Using Local-Based Characters and Values in Literature Course (Poetry and Prose Fiction)  

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Piscayanti, Kadek Sonia

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 2, page 393-397.
Topik: literature; local-based characters; local values; poetry and prose fiction
Fulltext: hal 393.pdf (15.04MB)

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The main purpose of education is to build character. In the same way, literature has its main purpose to build character. In its direct and indirect effect, literature has power to build character and values. Literature in many forms (poetry and prose fiction) give not only knowledge but also real experience and involvement. Literature allows students to feel the character, appreciate and analyze the character and reflect it on themselves. The richness aspects on literature builds the wide range of life values. In the teaching of english literature (poetry and prose fiction) in the classroom, in English Education Department, Ganesha University of Education, however, the materials used are often those western literature from western authors. There are problems faced by students such as the culture gap between students’ culture and author’s culture include the issues, the values, and the characters gap. These could influence the students’ mastery and competency level in literature course. Characters development based on local characters and local values are needed. These problems could be solved by one solution, that is to use learning materials with local-based characters and local-based values in the literature course. Local-based characters are those characters which were inspired by real local people with local issues, local conflicts and local values of life. By using local-based characters and values, the goal of literature learning, that is to build comprehension and characters, can be achieved.

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