Reading Chapter 1

Reading through a text book for teaching literature is not an easy task, especially when encounter with unfamiliar words. While reading, I usually skip the unsure words and keep on reading. Most of the time, i will get the content and idea of the text. However, this style of reading does not work for this text book. This is due to too many unknown words, I was in confusion while I keep on reading. It has finally forces me to open up the dictionary to search for the meaning of these words after three pages of reading.

While reading the first page, there are words that never come across and not really explained what these terms mean. For instance, acrolectal speaker, basilectal speaker, and mesolectal speaker.

Basically, this chapter is about how to teach literature, should we teach according to native way or the style that the nation is using. In this chapter, it eventually come to a conculsion through Raja Rao (1943)
" We have to grown to look at the world around as a part of us."
"Time alone will justify"

We can use thematic approach and linguistic approach. Before reaching till the last two pages of this chapter or should be before reaching these two approaches, i eventually have my dictionary accompanying me to get an idea the content of this chapter. This is amazing as the technique of skimming and scanning has to lead to meaning searching. Reading only this chapter took me around two hours. And it is only the first chapter!!
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