Thematic Approach in Teaching 21st Century Literature Among Grade 12 Students at Palahanan National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teaching literature to this young generation is quite challenging specially to the group of learners who are very exposed to social media. Few of the learners nowadays are fond of reading and interested to read. As a language teacher, to teach the students to be fond of reading and interested to engage in literature is quite challenging. Based from their experiences, the researcher tempted to use thematic approach in teaching literature to make the learners become interested in learning literature. The aim of this study is to determine the impact and effectiveness of the use of thematic approach in testing 21st century literature among students.

METHODS

The descriptive research design was used in the study with the researchers-made-test as the main data gathering tool. A sample respondents of 52 Grade 12 students from Palahanan National High School participated in this study. The thematic approaches ware applied in the leaning plan of the teacher in order to develop the interest and understanding of the students in literary text. Furthermore, researcher attempted to determine the effectiveness of using Thematic Approaches in teaching 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World in Palahanan National High school, San Juan Batangas.

RESULTS

Teaching and enrichment activities under thematic approach would be a great help in order to prepared students in dealing with 21st century literature tests. The enrichment activity may be utilized in testing literature to senior high school students. The findings revealed that the use of thematic approaches in teaching literature can give the learners attention to literary text. The performance and understanding of the learners in analyzing text are increase.

DISCUSSIONS

Findings of this research revealed that the use of thematic approach in teaching 21st Century Literature can help the teacher to develop the interest of the learners in understanding the literature. The result of the formative assessment shows the increase of performance of the students in understanding the literary text in the subject 21st century literature from the philippines and the world. In the view of the findings, it was recommended in the study that the use of intervention material using thematic approaches may help the students develop the understanding of literature.