Applying the information processing approach to teach literature in foreign language classrooms. A case study third year LMD students of english language at Khenchela- university.
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2019
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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The overall aim of this research is to investigate the importance of using the information
processing techniques in teaching literary courses and to know to what extent these techniques
are useful and helpful for students to acquire, retrieve, and recall new pieces of literature. To
reach this goal, a mixed methods research was followed relying on two different research
instrument: a questionnaire for students and interviews for teachers. A Questionnaire was
administered to (50) fifty students whereas the interview was done with three teachers of literary
course. The gathered data were analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results show that
there is an underuse of the IPT in teaching literature. Student‟s questionnaires reveals that the
primarily focus of the teacher is on direct questions to present new lessons in literature.
Furthermore, the results also show that the teacher‟s role and the techniques used during the
literary lectures are considered to be extremely important in the process of enhancing the
understanding of the different components of literary texts.