Last night I read the Asian Literature text that I got from my senior friend, Safa. He asked me to read the text in advance as the early semester is the only free time I have, though I think I am not that free now, haha. Oh well, getting back to the Asian Literature text, I started to get depress even on the first short story, Amelia. I don’t know if you have read it, I guess you have, and I wanted to share how I feel about it at least with someone.
In the short story, I see reality. Yes, the story was written a long time ago, maybe in 1970’s but the issue is still happening until today. Maybe not that much but I have seen it with my own eyes and it depresses me. I was so upset by how a man put himself higher than a woman. What makes him feels so? Society? Peers? Culture? This issue can also be seen in my own family. My grandmother would not allow us to eat on the table with the men (my grandfather, my uncles, my brother etc) and we women will have to wait until the men have finished eating then we can eat some more. I mean, this is 21st century for heaven sake!! Who are we? The maids?
What upsets me more about the short story is that the pathetic woman herself refuses to defend her right as a human being. It definitely hurts when someone whom we love did that to us right? But what does he gets back in the end? Just a little bit of guilt despite the effort his wife gave to take care of their children? I know these women, Asian women depend so much on their husband for the food on the table, shelter and so on but that does not mean they can treat their wives like that. That is not what people call love, it is what people say as “that is my responsibility and its good enough I did it”.
p/s: sorry I shouldn’t have talked about Asian Literature subject instead.
Now I am going to surf the Melta website and read the discussion.
After reading the Melta discussion, now I know how much problems that teaching literature encounters. The problems range from the student’s interest and ability to comprehend literature text as far as to teacher’s expertise in teaching. A lot of issues were discussed in the discussion and triggered many attentions to ponder their own opinion to be talked about. The attentions were given to much more serious problems such as teacher’s ability to teach, student’s ability to read and comprehend literature text, incomprehensible or beyond understanding text, and more I-never-heard-before problems.
We were asked to present our findings on Melta discussion on the next class and I was so shocked to find that there are some problems that I failed to notice when I read through the discussion before. Among the problems faced by teachers are students who refuse to read, low vocabulary level, hard to capture student’s interest and few more. Surprisingly, some of the posts were posted by students themselves giving opinions and reasons why their friends have problems in learning English Literature.
In one of my friend’s presentation, Nor Zaliza stated that teachers need creative approaches to teach literature. Well, in my own opinion, sometimes teachers have problem in trying to be creative, if they are lucky, their creativity might catch some attention but if they teach the lesson wrong in trying to be too creative, students might end up learning nothing. Some people don’t even bother in trying to be creative and take their teaching career for granted which indirectly ruining other teacher’s reputation. Going back to the topic, creative is subjective, some may see it as creative, and others may not. It differs on the effect of the approach to the students as well as the student’s level of proficiency. Some teachers get too ambitious and predict for success without considering the student’s ability to comprehend the lesson. And when the lesson failed, the teachers get unmotivated and go on with boring lifeless lessons afterward.
Its not that easy to be a good teacher…I hardly have any confidence in doing it…
p/s: no p/s today…not in the mood…suffering anxiety of becoming a teacher L
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