Teaching literature in foreign language French in Scandinavia 1990-2026: A research overview
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https://doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v120i1.64956Keywords:
literature selection and the canon, teaching methods, literary studies and motivation, literature didactics, French as a foreign language, FLEAbstract
In this article, a corpus of 28 academic works from the Scandinavian countries are analysed thematically and divided into three categories: 1) the frameworks of foreign language teaching, 2) the contents of literature teaching, and 3) the methods and motives of literature teaching within the French subject. The analysis shows that studies of curricula and textbooks – frameworks of teaching – are more frequent than studies of teaching practices, and that the educational setting of universities is more often examined than that of secondary school. As many scholars evoke the lack of knowledge in first-term students at universities, it seems urgent to explore literature within modern language teaching in secondary schools. The contents of teaching section addresses articles on literature selection, the question of a literary canon, and literature linked to motivation. The section on methods and motives of teaching literature in French as a foreign language points towards a combination of text analysis, well rooted in the French tradition, and experience- or affect based reading, frequent in Scandinavian classrooms. The concluding section points out possible lines of future research in the field.
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