Criteria of selecting literary works for promoting the learners’ reading motivation
2013
Kalve, A., Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy (Latvia) | Stikane, I., University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)
The article draws the readers’ attention to the problem of the possibilities of selecting literary works as the teaching/learning content for promoting the reading motivation of the learners of Grade 9. The article reveals the criteria of selecting literary works for both selection of literary works and for facilitating the learners’ interest in reading and learning the esthetical and aesthetic values. Special attention is paid to the learners’ attitude to contemporary literary works, which discuss themes topical for today’s young people , but the inclusion of which in the teaching/learning materials cause perplexity in some part of adults. The article emphasizes ideas of the specific character of perceiving a literary work as a work of art and presents problems connected with the vulgarization of literature. The article also reveals and analyses the learners’ interests and needs for developing a relevant learning content, the learners’ opinions, expressed in the interviews, their reading motivation and their preferences in reading. The study facilitates the understanding of the necessity to develop the content of teaching/learning literature corresponding to the learners’ interests and needs, which in their turn motivate the learners’ reading motivation.
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