MODULE INCONTEMPORARY, EMERGENT AND POPULAR LITERATURE Preface Designed to develop the 21st Century skills of the students (Creativity, Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking), this module forContemporary, Emergent and Popular Literatureis specifically designed to assist you as future English language teacher to develop and apply all the Intended Learning Outcomes of this three-unit course as per CMO 75, s. 2017 of the Teacher Education Curricula. Contemporary, Emergent and Popular Literatureis a General Education course for the would-be English language teachers as contemporary writers, inspirers and movers.It explores on providing pre-service English teachers with opportunities to acquire extensive reading backgrounds in literature and allied fields needed in the understanding and evaluation of critical issues in contemporary and popular literature and genres. This course allows them to demonstrate their research-based content knowledge and its relevance in the teaching learning process using various methods of literary analysis. This module does not only adhere to the description of the course inscribed on CMO 75, s. 2017, but it likewise targets the outcomes specific to the BSEd program.It provides many relevant tasks acting as scaffolds for the students to construct their own knowledge. After completing this module, you are expected to: 1. Exhibit comprehension of the key concepts on Contemporary, Emergent and Popular Literature, their genres and characteristics 2.Apply creative writing knowledge in differentiated contemporary and emerging literary genres on realistic events of the present time 3.Employ various methods of literary analysis, such as formal, psychological, and /or feminist analysis in writing a response paper In each unit, there are two or more lessons that include varied performance tasks. In performing the varied tasks, you will be able to develop knowledge and skills which you will surely find helpful in becoming an English language teacher through your integration of contemporary, emergent or popular literature. 1
UNIT 1: INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR LITERATURE Objectives At the end of this topic, the students should be able to: 1. acquaint themselves with the nature, appeal and social functions of popular literature, and; 2. describe the characteristics of popular literature. Presentation Popular Literature The word ‘popular’ has a long and contested history. Its original definition as ‘of the people’ developed an additional cultural dimension in the 19th century, when it began to be used to describe an easy, comprehensible style. Popular literature is regarded as literature of the masses because it is read by a large number of people. Popular literature includes those writings intended for the masses and those that find favor with large audiences. It can be distinguished from artistic literature in that it is designed primarily to entertain. Popular literature, unlike high literature, generally does not seek a high degree of formal beauty or subtlety and is not intended to endure. The growth of popular literature has paralleled the spread of literacy through education and has beenfacilitatedbytechnological developmentsin printing. With the Industrial Revolution, works of literature, which were previously produced forconsumptionby small, well-educated elites, became accessible to large sections and even majorities of the members of a population.
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