Whose Standard? Celebrating Differences in an English Literature Class
Safrina
Noorman
Based
on data from classroom-based research and reflections of starting a new program
in Literature at the Department of English in the Indonesia University of
Education, the paper questions the issues of standardization and discusses the
problems of standardization and the alternative ways of dealing with them. Starting
with the ever debated questions of “what constitutes (English literature”, the
paper will explore the process of determining “standard” English literary texts
to share with the students in class. It will then discuss learning potentials
the texts might have for the students and look at how these potentials might be
so exploited in a class that learning might be warranted to happen. The paper
shall then present grounds for creating alternative conditions where standards
make ways for the celebration of differences.
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Noorman, S. (2003, October). Whose standard? Celebrating differences in an
English literature class.
Paper presented at the 51st TEFLIN International Conference,
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