The Combined Role of Extensive Reading and Extensive Viewing for Enhancing English Literature Students’ Literary Appreciation and Knowledge

Authors

  • Neshat Azizi Department of Foreign Language Philologies, Philipps University of Marburg, Wilhelm-Ropke Strasse 6-35032 Marburg, Germany
  • Rastislav Podpera Theological Institute, Faculty of Theology, The Catholic University in Ružomberok, Spišská Kapitula 12, 053 04 Spišské Podhradie, Slovak Republic
  • Martin Stur Department of Romance and German Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra, Stefanikova 67, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia & Institute of Neophilology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bielsko-Biala, ul. Willowa 2, 43-309 Bielsko-Biala, Poland
  • Djamaldinova Shakhlo Obloberdiyevna Department of Uzbek Language and Literature with Russian Language, Samarkand State Medical University, Samarkand, Amir Temur 18A, Republic of Uzbekistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2024.2.441.450

Keywords:

extensive reading, extensive viewing, literature students, literary appreciation, literary knowledge

Abstract

Aim. The extent to which extensive reading (ER) and extensive viewing (EV) combined can support literature students’ literary knowledge, particularly for EFL learners has yet to be established.

Methods. This study undertakes a qualitative approach to understanding the opportunities that each of these modes provide for EFL literature students. The investigation was done through focus group interviews conducted at the end of the course, and student learning journals written every two weeks. The participants were a class of 36 sophomore English literature students. Extensive reading (ER) and extensive viewing (EV) were operationalised as books and movie adaptations of classic literature through reading or watching general fiction and movies.

Results. The results indicated that ER/ EV were valuable for English literature students, and complemented each other. EV appeared to offer a visual coverage to ER which suggested that it could be an effective asset to be used along with extensive reading.

Conclusion. The implications of the current study are for English literature students and teachers alike to consider this combination or each of these modes as a valuable source of input or practice.

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Author Biographies

  • Neshat Azizi , Department of Foreign Language Philologies, Philipps University of Marburg, Wilhelm-Ropke Strasse 6-35032 Marburg, Germany

    Neshat Azizi is an MA student at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy,
    Philipps University of Marburg. She studied TEFL at the State University of Mazandaran and has been interested in doing research as an undergraduate student. Her areas of interest include cultural materialism, critical thinking, and literature.

  • Rastislav Podpera, Theological Institute, Faculty of Theology, The Catholic University in Ružomberok, Spišská Kapitula 12, 053 04 Spišské Podhradie, Slovak Republic

    After completing his master's degree, he continued his doctoral studies at Comenius University, where he defended his PhD. from musicology. He worked as a music scientist at the Institute of Musicology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He actively participated in the preparation of liturgical songbooks for Slovakia in the Music Section of the Liturgical Commission of the Conference of Bishops of Slovakia. He teaches church music to priests at the Roman Catholic Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology at Comenius University in Bratislava. He received his habilitation from the Didactics of Music at the Catholic University in Ružomberok. He currently works as an associate professor at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, at the Institute of Sacred Art in Bishop Ján Vojtaššák's Priestly Seminary in the Spišska Kapitula in Spišský Podhradie in Slovakia.

  • Martin Stur, Department of Romance and German Studies, Faculty of Arts, Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra, Stefanikova 67, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia & Institute of Neophilology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bielsko-Biala, ul. Willowa 2, 43-309 Bielsko-Biala, Poland

    PhD. in Linguistics at Comenius University in Bratislava. Associate Professor at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, where he is lecturing fulltime in Spanish Linguistics and Didactics. He is part-time lecturing Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Semiotics at the Jan Albrecht Academy of Music and Arts in Banská Štiavnica. Half-time Visiting Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Textual Analysis, and Non-Fiction literature at the University of Bielsko-Biała. From 2023 member of Prague linguistic circle. 74 publications, 1 monograph,1 textbook. 

  • Djamaldinova Shakhlo Obloberdiyevna, Department of Uzbek Language and Literature with Russian Language, Samarkand State Medical University, Samarkand, Amir Temur 18A, Republic of Uzbekistan

    Doctor of Philosophy in Pedagogical Sciences (PhD), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Uzbek Language and Literature with Russian at Samarkand State Medical University.  Author of more than 100 scientific works, including 1 textbook, 3 monographs on PBL (problem-based learning) and 3 textbooks for students of medical universities and lyceums.

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2024-09-25

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2024): Journal of Education Culture and Society

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Azizi , N., Podpera, R., Stur, M. ., & Obloberdiyevna, . D. S. . (2024). The Combined Role of Extensive Reading and Extensive Viewing for Enhancing English Literature Students’ Literary Appreciation and Knowledge. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 15(2), 441-450. https://doi.org/10.15503/jecs2024.2.441.450