MASS CULTURE PHENOMENA AS A TOOL OF TEACHING TO ANALIZE THE CLASSICS

Abstract

The article deals with one of topical issues of modern teaching methods. It is focused on using mass culture materials in the process of Literature teaching. The authors of the article prove that it is effective to use masscult in Russian and Foreign Literature classes at a Pedagogical University to develop reading motivation. Then the authors assert that such an approach allows to make theoretical knowledge of literature as a process and a system more profound. It also allows to broaden the understanding of literary analysis of curricular and extracurricular fiction. The teachers’ ten years experience of integrating materials of mass culture into the educational process at Shadrinsk State Pedagogical University is described in the article. The realized methods presented in the article showed their productiveness and effectiveness, and that, in turn, allows to make adjustment to school leavers’ understanding the specifics of literature and fiction. The further amplification of the studied issue can lie in framing the consistency of using mass culture phenomena in teaching. The main statements of the article can be used for further teaching guides to reach the main goals of literary education, that is to make an intelligent reader.