Cultural approach: A potential pedagogy for promoting learners’ insights into cultural aspects in literary works

Thai Cong Dan , Au Xuan Sam * and Truong Thi Kim Lien

* Corresponding authorAu Xuan Sam

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DOI: 10.22144/ctu.jen.2016.051
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Thai, C. D., Au, X. S., & Truong, T. K. L. (2016). Cultural approach: A potential pedagogy for promoting learners’ insights into cultural aspects in literary works. CTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development , (04), 114-127. https://doi.org/10.22144/ctu.jen.2016.051
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This study would attempt to ascertain the truly inseparable relation between culture (Geert Hofstede, 1997), and literature (Nguyen V.D., 2001) and investigate a potential pedagogy to promote learners' insights into cultural aspects found in literary works. It is a descriptive research which comprises a variety of authors' viewpoints about the relation of culture and literature, what the cultural approach or New Historicism (Ann B. Dobie's book, 2001) is, and the analysis of the three selected American stories, namely Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1921) and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily (1930), based on cultural lens. This study also might encourage the application of a cultural approach as a potential pedagogy (Pham T,Vu L.H & Nguyen N,H, 2001). The research would inspire teachers to conduct further research to test both the effectiveness of this approach in teaching literature and the learners' attitudes towards it as well. 
Keywords: Cultural approach, culture, literature, literary works, pedagogy, EFL learners

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