Kiel Fachdidaktik Englisch

Why teach literature? (Engelbert Thaler 2008)

1. Language development (improvement of one's own basic skills, competences like reading or writing and linguistic domains like pragmatics or grammar)
2. Intercultural Learning (opens window to world and contributes understanding, recent research proves advantage of literature)
3. Personal enrichment (texts can discuss themes one can respond to by providing different views of life, role models or possible answers to personal relevant issues)
4. Motivational value (it creates excitement because it changes the classroom atmosphere)
5. Interpretational openness (demands personal involvement because different interpretations possible)
6. Social prestige (Literature holds a high status)

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