[etni] Fw: literature

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From: byk - byk@xxxxxxxxxxxx

I think that Chaya Ovnat has expressed perfectly why there should be 
reservations about the HOTS /literature or literature /HOTS program, and 
Esther Revivo has once again pointed out the problems it poses in practice.

I love books and literature.  My family and I have just spent a good part of 
Saturday going over Browning's My Last Duchess, and Donne's 'Death Be Not 
Proud', but I don't think we have the time or the necessity to do this sort 
of thing with the average pupil, because, though I hate to say this, it does 
come at the expense of learning basic English , Chaya's "essential 
prerequisites."

This is not to say that average or weak students should not be taught 
literature, but it must be carefully chosen, and certainly not through 
meta-learning, and not at the expense of learning the language.  This is not 
Europe, where language learning is often more of an acquaintance with how 
foreign languages work, so that it will ease study at a later point in life 
of a particular language.  Here, our pupils need to know the actual 
language, and I sometimes think that MOE has forgotten this.

Jennifer Byk



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