Teacher reflection 10/30

 This time, I want to share my experience about learning(teaching) literature. This semester, I took a Chinese class that focuses on teaching literature in L2, this is a Chinese class, so it is all about teaching Chinese literature. I think the teacher is using a really reformational way, which is called literature circle. I have never heard this teaching method before, but it is really fun to me. In literature circle, students do a lot of group discussion, and the preparation require us to read an article in Chinese, and each of us has a role(discussion director, connector, culture expert). When we are having class, the discussion director asks us  a few questions that related to the article we read at home, and the connector talks about what him/her thought about after he/she reading the article, it could be a movie or a book. After that, the culture expert will state some similarities and  differences between Chinese culture and American culture. I think literature circle is a great way to learn literature as well as the target language, since it could make students to read, write, listen, speak at the same time. But, it required  a higher level of proficiency in the L2, so it can only be used in advanced level students. I am considering use literature circle in my own teaching in the future.