Integrating Personal Moral Values in Teaching Literature in English as a Foreign Language Setting

Abstract

This paper aimed at exploring the existence of the integration of personal moral values within the process of the teaching of literature in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) setting in an Islamic University in Indonesia. As a part of the personal literary competence being performed in approaching literary texts, in this case study, literature instructors in EFL setting were seen as approaching the teaching of the English Literary texts through the framework of Borsheim-Black’s Critical Literature Pedagogy. It was a pedagogical framework for merging goals of critical literacy and canonical literature instruction consisting of two stances of reading literature: reading with the text and reading against the text. In this study, the stance of reading against the text became distinguishable since the findings showed that both literature instructors inadvertently articulated their personal moral values in approaching the teaching of English literary texts within the classroom although the objectives of the courses did not focus on teaching moral values. The study concluded that these instructors have a certain perception towards the integration of their personal moral values in the reading of literature and the teaching of literature in EFL set-ting. Hopefully, such assumption will be studied in further research.

The Representation of Local Culture of Instructor’s Literary Competence in English Language Classrooms

“…Through the findings, the study discovered another possibility of the representation of local culture, aside from the application of local culture within the curriculum [4,5], and [6], and the integration of local culture in the teaching of literature [20] and personal moral values [23]. The findings show that the representation of local culture in this study was unintentional and was reflecting the cultural identity of the instructor since the syllabi of the courses do not mention the obligation of applying and integrating local culture in the process of the teaching of English literature in EFL setting.…”

Integration of Other Content Areas in English 8

“…Guryay and Ozbas (2013) and Yearta (2019) examined integrating social studies into the English content. Furthermore, the viewpoints of Sugiono (2022), Afifuddin (2022), andAli (2017) provided insight into the possible integration of values education with English content. Ajani (2021), Makhmudov (2020), andVillarta (2022) examined the roles and responsibilities of teachers in integrating other content areas and discussed challenges teachers faced when integrating other content areas.…”