전래동화 읽기와 영어교육

Reading Fairy Tales and Teaching English

Nowadays, the classroom is changing. Universities now perceive academia to be just another kind of business and the focus for curricula is now on practicality. The professors who have insisted on teaching literature, considering literature to be the fountain of culture, have come to admit they have to change to cope with the expectations of students and the demands of society. The solution is to design courses which most effectively teaches English through literature while successfully retaining the importance of learning “art” against this rising tide of “business.” This paper tries to show an example of such a course which aims at teaching English and literature at the same time by using the tales of Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, or other writers who have recorded oral folk lore. To combine literary education with language education, the course should not deal with just the simplified versions flooding the ESL market. Through reading the original fairy tales, students can gain literary knowledge and enlighten their own minds. By seeing how each version of fairy tales was recorded differently by various writers, they can learn how the texts are constituted by their culture and develop the tools they need to understand society, life and the world. At the same time, students can learn English through fun lesson plans using fairy tales and, more effectively, through various texts such as audio books, sound files, films, video files, and the Internet as well as written texts