The Teaching of Literature in the Digital Culture Era: Opportunities and Challenges

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10.2991/978-2-38476-321-4_42How to use a DOI?

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Literature Teaching; Digital Culture; Online Sources; Opportunities; Challenges

Abstract

The teaching of literature has undergone significant changes since the emergence of the digital culture. In the past, a teacher and students in the classroom had to have their copies of the traditional book(s) used but now no traditional books are always needed. The teacher and all students can have digital books on their gadgets. On the part of the students, digital culture greatly influences their way of reading, understanding, and appreciating what they are reading. In discussing this issue, this paper focuses on my experience in teaching a classic American novel, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald to my students. By narrating students’ attitude in reading the novel, what they were doing in the classroom, and their writing weekly assignments and their final papers, this paper addresses the opportunities and challenges of the digital culture in the teaching of literature. The research found that the digital culture has two opposing sides. On one hand, it makes it easy for students to find everything they need but on the other it also presents challenges that we need to cope with, i.e. their reading and writing are greatly disrupted by the online sources.

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AU  - Yosep Bambang Margono-Slamet
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TI  - The Teaching of Literature in the Digital Culture Era: Opportunities and Challenges
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture (ICCoLliC 2024)
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