A guide in teaching English literature for university learners case study : the glass menagerie for Tenessee Wiliams

Abstract EN

This article introduces two interrelated didactical approaches that university teachers of literature can follow to help their students carry out Academic literary analyses.

The first approach is based on The Implied Reader Theory (I.

R.

T) for the Indian Professor of Literature Gayatri shakravotri Spivak.

The second is based on Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG).

The aim is to help students move naturally and easily from simply summarizing works of literature to critically studying literary texts.

These applications to literary knowledge represent the first step.

The second step is argumentation and analysis.

The last but not the least would be the acute and sophisticated use of language and expression along with the right structures and the clean grammar.

These approaches can be particularly useful if applied properly within the L.

M.

D system.

A system based primarily on the logic of Competence