It was seen that during the second phase, students were much more motivated to learn American Literature than during the first phase. On the basis of this observation, the author suggests some effective activities that teachers could present when teaching American Literature to English-major students. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE OF HNUE Interdisciplinary Science 2013 Vol. 58 No. 5 pp. 150-158 This paper is available online at http THE EFFECT OF LITERATURE RESPONSE ACTIVITIES ON STUDENT MOTIVATION IN AN AMERICAN LITERATURE CLASS AT THE HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION Do Thi Phuong Mai Faculty of English Hanoi National University of Education Abstract. The author investigated the effect of using literature response activities when teaching American Literature to students who are majoring in English language at the Hanoi National University of Education. One class of English-major students studied American Literature in two phases. In phase 1 there were no literature response activities and in phase 2 there were literature response activities. It was seen that during the second phase students were much more motivated to learn American Literature than during the first phase. On the basis of this observation the author suggests some effective activities that teachers could present when teaching American Literature to English-major students. Keywords Literature response activities American literature motivation. 1. Introduction English language teaching in Vietnam in recent years has moved from the traditional approach to various versions of communicative approaches. Such has been the case in the teaching of Literature to EFL students. In the traditional approach a teacher would give a lecture about a work of literature and give the students his interpretation of the content and value of the book. It is now thought that this might not be the best method of teaching in a language class. Consequently a variety of other approaches and methods are now being used. One is the use of literature response activities. However few studies have been done to show the usefulness of these activities in the classroom. Therefore the author decided to do this research in order to evaluate the effect of literature response activities in American Literature classes on .
