Approaching Literary Texts with the Aim of Acquiring Emotional Literacy Skills
Approaching Literary Texts with the Aim of Acquiring Emotional Literacy Skills

Summary/Abstract: Literacy is the ability one should possess so as to understand all forms of communication and to use the acquired knowledge for further tasks. Reading literacy is a current issue in education, as it refers to the skills students should have in order to be able to read, decode meaning, make inferences, analyse critically, and synthesize information. Emotional literacy is an inherent part of this general skill which readers should master in order to access information, understand messages in their context and be able to contribute to their own shaping of knowledge and character as a natural consequence of their encounter with literature. By linking the knowledge from the field of psychology on emotional intelligence and emotional literacy with that from the field of readers’ response to literature, the act of approaching literary texts should be one of discovering oneself and the others and of finding constructive ways of interaction.

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