INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO TEACHING (VICTORIAN) LITERATURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Узданица XVII 2 (2020), (стр. 19-32)

АУТОР(И): Milena Z. Škobo

Е-АДРЕСА: milenanikolic86@yahoo.com

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DOI: 10.18485/uzdanica.2020.17.2.2

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The aim of this paper is to explore the most recent approaches to teaching Victorian literature at tertiary education. The paper deals with the challenges of teaching literature in the digital age and explores several unconventional ways of studying, teaching and interpreting traditional literary texts, in particular, the techniques and strategies employed at a course covering the literature of the Victorian period (English Literature II) conducted in winter semester during the academic year 2019/2020 at the Faculty of Philology at Sinergija University in Bijeljina, the Republic of Srpska. The teaching method introduced to the second-year students attending English Literature II involves setting up a forum discussion board via Wix Mobile Application, using the Actively Learn language platform, creating a Facebook page of a chosen literary character, and making online quizzes and games on Sporcle – World’s Largest Trivia Website Quiz. The online tools and social media are used along with online games and quizzes, communicative language teaching activities and modern language-based activities that employ the four main language skills, activate the students’ prior knowledge and engage students in meaningful communication triggered by the general understanding of the literary texts and the parallels that can be drawn between the 19th and 21 st centuries from the perspective of the digital-native students. The paper opens further questions in regard to the application of modern technology and the most recent online tools to teaching literature and calls for a necessity to further research the methodology of teaching literature in the digital context.

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digital age, literature teaching, unconventional approaches, online tools

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