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The Development of a Model of Teaching and Learning Culture through English Literature

&nbsp;&nbsp;The paper provides a model of teaching and learning culture based on English literature. The interrelation between English literature and culture teaching and learning has been often mentioned, but without a specific reference to what to study and how to do it.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper suggests a three-stage model of teaching and learning culture: experiencing, describing, and reading culture. The first stage is a preactivity phase to activate students&quot; schema, or background knowledge, of culture. Students are supposed to bring to class, and discuss, realia, texts, experiences or contacts with a certain value of the target culture which they are going to study. The second stage is to experience the cultural value through written and visual texts that materialize the value. The visual reinforcement at this phase is one of the ways to come over the indirectness of cultural experience in an EFL setting. The final stage is to find out the cultural pattern, which is abstract and invisible, hidden in the cultural value. Students compare and contrast the texts with other relevant texts from both the learner&quot;s culture and the target culture so as to make a generalization of its cultural meaning. This phase is key to the establishment of a new background knowledge, that is, to the acquiring of cultural competence.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Following this direction, a new curriculum and texts, based on English literature, can be developed. The core values of the target culture are selected and established and texts and teaching methods are developed accordingly. A new canon of English literature is to cater to teaching culture as well as English literature.