Teaching and Studying Literature in The Digital Era - From Text to Hypertext

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 6 - 13, 30.06.2017

Flavia Kaba

Abstract

Teaching literature bears
availability, at any moment of literary texts, and the possibility that these
texts are easily accessible by students who during the learning process should
be taught how to analyze, evaluate and simply to understand these texts. Taking
into account the difficulties that are faced by literature professors today, as
a result of declining interest in reading books by students, the article
stresses the need to motivate them and the role that technology resources
information and communication play in this regard. This issue in the article is
treated by analyzing initially and briefly the fundamental changes that the use
of new technologies has brought in literature which show the development of
multimedia with hypertext and e-books focusing afterwards at the impact that
this technology has on the manner of study by students and on the didactic of
literature by teachers. Arguing that the new technologies, can best support the
teaching of literature technologies at any level of study, the article proposes
the inclusion of digital technologies in the curriculum’s literature.

Keywords

Multimedia, ICT, technology, literature, hypertext, e-book, computer, book, Internet, Web

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