The teaching of literature in using cognitive poetics: its practicality, strengths and challenges
This paper explores the use of a theory known as cognitive poetics as an approach to teach literature to students in private secondary schools, Malaysia. Cognitive poetics stands as an inter-disciplinary field that revolves around the science of reading literature by using psychology and cognition...
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| Format: | Proceeding Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2024
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/117919/7/117919%20The%20teaching%20of%20literature%20in%20using%20cognitive%20poetics.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/117919/ https://www.ukm.my/citra/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/eProceeding-ISeLT2024-09112024-resize.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper explores the use of a theory known as cognitive poetics as an approach to teach literature
to students in private secondary schools, Malaysia. Cognitive poetics stands as an inter-disciplinary
field that revolves around the science of reading literature by using psychology and cognition
(Stockwell, 2020). It supports a natural process of reading that creates an interaction between the
reader and the literary text. In this qualitative study, the authors opt to use three key concepts of
cognitive poetics, namely figures and grounds, prototypes and reading as well as discourse worlds
and mental spaces. The rationale of this study is to explore the strengths and challenges in using the
key concepts contained in cognitive poetics and whether this theory is practical to be applied in the
teaching of literature. This study sought to find answers whether educators could or could not adopt
cognitive poetics in teaching literature and whether this approach could garner students’ interest in
reading and studying literature. Two phases of semi-structured interviews and class observations were
conducted, involving three teachers who taught English Literature in three private schools. The
findings show that cognitive poetics could assist the students to fathom the psychology of the authors
and characters in literary works. This research hopes to introduce a relatively new theoretical
approach to the teaching of literature in secondary schools in Malaysia. |
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