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Table 6.1 Teacher characteristics
The relevance and usefulness of the Comprehensive Approach
Teacher
Caitlin Doris Fred Harry Liz Ralph Sarah Ysabel
School Teacher Teaching age experience
Number of students
Average % of EFL literature lessons per year
37% 24% 42%
8%
6% 14% 21% 18%
(and Mean age) per class (years) per year
A 62 37 B 32 10 C 39 8 D 56 32 D 58 31 E 57 24 E 35 8 F 46 20
Year1 29 (16.1) 31 (16.1) 21 (17.9) 26 (16.2) 28 (16.1) 24 (16.2) 23 (16.3) 21 (16.2)
Year2
28 (15.9) 25 (16.0) 19 (17.9) 2 25 (16.2) 27 (16.1) 23 (16.3) 23 (16.3) 14 (16.5)
Table 6.2 Texts taught as part of the EFL literature curriculum per school between 2015 - 2017
Teacher
Caitlin Doris Fred
Harry Liz Ralph Sarah
Ysabel
School Texts included in the EFL literature curriculum between 2015 - 2017
A Macbeth (Shakespeare) | extracts from Utopia (More) | To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell), Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), The Circle (Dave Eggers)
B Macbeth (Shakespeare) | a selection from: The Help (Stockett), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), A Time to Kill (John Grisham), Naughts and Crosses (Malorie Blackman), The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison), Black Boy (Richard Wright)
C Beowulf (Anon.) | The Husband’s Message (Anon.) | Against a Dwarf (Anon.) | Bryd 6 one Brere (Anon.) | extract from The Pardoner’s Tale (Chaucer) | Alisoun (Anon.) | Go,
Lovely Rose (Waller) | Amoretti LXXV (Spenser) | On the Death of my First and Dearest
Child, Hector Philips, born the 23rd of April, and died the 2nd of May 1655 (Philips) |
One and Twenty (Johnson) | On Opening a Place for Social Prayer (Cowper) | Ode on Solitude (Pope) | Ozymandias (Shelley) | A Poison Tree (Blake) | Where’s the Poet? (Keats) | It was a Hard Thing to Undo This Knot (Hopkins) | Duet (Tennyson) | The House of Life: 41. Through Death to Love (Rossetti) | Dulce et Decorum Est (Owen) | Silhouette (Hughes) | Whispers of Immortality (Eliot) | Psalm IV (Ginsburg) | How to Meditate (Kerouac) | For all (Snyder) | I Google Myself (Nichols) | Bridled Vows (Duhig) | The British – serves 60 million (Zephaniah)
D Hamlet (Shakespeare)
E The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)| The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Mohsin Hamid)| Girl in Translation (Jean Kwok)| extracts from The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) | Sonnet 18 and 130 (Shakespeare) | To His Coy Mistress (Marvell) | extracts from A Modest Proposal (Swift) | extracts from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) | Annabel Lee & The Tell Tale Heart (Poe) | extracts from Jane Eyre & Wuthering Heights (Brontë) | extracts from Oliver Twist (Dickens) | extracts from Tess of D’Urbervilles (Hardy)
F King Lear & Macbeth (Shakespeare) | The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) | The Talented Mr Ripley (Patricia Highsmith) | extracts from The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) | extracts from The Tragical History of Dr Faustus (Marlowe) | Sonnet 65 & 43 (Shakespeare) | Death be not Proud & Song (Donne)
Participation in this longitudinal study was voluntary and teachers and students were assured that information they shared would be treated with strict confidentiality and
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