An Investigation on Approaches Used by School Teachers in Teaching the Literature Components in EFL Classrooms/ English for Palestine Case

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the approaches used by English teachers

in teaching the literature components in English for Palestine, in addition

to investigating the effect of gender, qualification, experience and specialization

on their use of these approaches. To answer the questions of the study,

a 33-item questionnaire was used to measure the perceptions of 52 teachers

who teach English in Qalqiliah secondary schools in the first semester of

the academic year 2012/2013. The results revealed that the teachers tend to

use more than one approach and that not all approaches are used at the same

degree or level since teachers’ use of approaches ranged from moderate to

high levels in the literature lessons. Furthermore, the results revealed that the

information- based approach was the most favored approach in the literature

class while the stylistic approach scored the lowest level of use. Moreover,

the study showed no statistically significant differences for the total degree,

nor for any of the domains with the exception of the Personal-Response approach

due to gender, specialization and experience. On the other hand, there

were statistically significant differences on the total degree of approaches employed

by teachers due to qualification.