INTEGRATING STRATEGIES IN READING LITERARY MATERIALS

Abstract

Strategies are learner-centered techniques adapted to different levels from preliminary teaching programmers to highly advanced ones. They aim at fostering the learners’ own reading abilities and enhancing their reflection, comprehension, and retention in close reading situation such as the case of intensive reading course, notably, literature programmes in foreign language classes. Incorporating strategic techniques in the area of teaching and learning has been called Strategic Teaching (Bosma & Block, 1992), in imitation to military and business fields which adopted this concept long before (Liddell, 1987). The major aim of this paper is first to highlight the concept of strategic teaching/learning and how it might be integrated in processing literary materials, and second to develop teaching stages in accordance with the two major reading types: intensive and extensive.