문학을 통한 작문 교육, 작문을 통한 문학 교육

Teaching Writing through Literature, Teaching Literature through Writing: Writing Autobiography

This article introduces a course designed to utilize literature in teaching students how to create autobiographical essays, autobiographical fictions, photo scribes, and autobiographical videos. Various literary texts that range from Benjamin Franklin to Luc Sante, or from Emily Dickinson to Leslie Marmon Silko, help students in every stage of their writing from invention to stylistic refinement. At the same time, this course shows how to use creative writing to engage students more actively in reading activities in literature classes. Students lea a to read as writers and csaylea a aylot about the assigned readings that could be overpassed if they were reading just as rtudens. Ia this course, students could lea a about the relationship betweea fact and autobiographical trubouthrough writing their own autobiographical essays and fictions and attained a deep undenstanding of autobiography as a geare. Obsenving the formation of their own identities, they lea aed about the characteristics of identity, an important noents coustudying literaturetionsyadiso bf ame a identrtudens who do not just consume literature but read critictobytionsir noents writing skiobi were diso improved; students who had advanced or intermediate skiobi before the course showed improvement couboth a cura se, stproficiency, and students who had low skills from the beginning did not show much progress in accuracy but showed improvement in proficiency.