Structural models and narrative analysis : approaches to literature in teaching English as foreign language

Abstract EN

The study is an attempt to help students to find an adequate way for analyzing narrative through investigating internal components of the structure of fictions.

The study sets out to apply procedures derived from linguistics in the analysis of short story and novels.

The goal is to find an easy and applicable approach to the teaching of literature for undergraduates within the context of English language teaching as a foreign language.

The procedures adopted is derived from structural and formal models: Bremond's sequences, Barthes's functions and Greimas's Actantial model.

The work adopted in this study is a classic regency novel: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Besides being a genius work, the choice of Pride Prejudice due to it is one of the literary subjects within the curriculum of Juniors in The Open Educational college.

The researcher finds it is convenient for undergraduates to experience the literary analysis depending on scientific procedures help them to discover the internal structures of literary texts through using some stylistic tools enable them to establish an interpretive operations in reading literature to be, in turn, a reliable and valid instruments for interpreting any discourse rather than literary texts