The Interaction between Films and British and American Literature in Literature Teaching

DOI

10.2991/ichess-19.2019.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

American and British literature teaching, films, Input, Output, Interaction

Abstract

Over the past few decades, the English departments in China are faced with several major problems, namely the motivation on literature reading is falling , which results in students’ poor academic performance and lack of creative, critical and analytical thinking. In terms of this issue, this paper explores a method for the teaching of American and British literature: the employment of films in literature class. Three approaches are proposed, Input Approach like making predictions while watching a film and reading a text; Interaction Approach including generating three levels of questions about both films and texts; Output Approach involving mind maps and creative writing. Through proper and creative use in literature classes, films can motivate students to stay focused and meanwhile cultivate their critical thinking and analytical skills.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - The Interaction between Films and British and American Literature in Literature Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2019)
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