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ABSTRACT

Received date: 23/09/2015

Accepted date: 30/11/2016

This study would attempt to ascertain the truly inseparable relation between culture (Hofstede, 1997) and literature (Nguyen, 2001) and investigate a potential pedagogy to promote learners’ insights into cultural aspects found in literary works. It is a kind of descriptive research which comprises a variety of authors’ viewpoints about the relation of culture and literature, what the cultural approach or New Historicism (Dobie, 2001) is, and the analysis of the three selected American stories namely Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1853), William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily (1930) and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1921), based on cultural lenses. This study can also encourage the application of a cultural approach as a potential pedagogy (Pham and Nguyen, 2001). The research would inspire teachers to conduct further research to test both the effectiveness of this approach in teaching literature and the students’ attitudes towards it.

Keywords

Cultural approach, culture, literature, literary works, pedagogy, EFL learners

Cited as: Sam, A.X., Lien, T.T.K. and Dan, T.C., 2016. Cultural approach: A potential pedagogy for promoting learners’ insights into cultural aspects in literary works. Can Tho University Journal of Science. Vol 4: 114-127.