مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Essay As A Text Type in Language and Literature Education: Sample Of Tanpınar, T. S. Eliot And Camus

Abstract :

One of the important phases of the process of language and literature education is the education of the literary and informative text types. Learning the features of the text types and giving examples from these text types is expected to the students in language and literary lessons. The essay is regarded as a problematic text type in text classifications of text linguistics because of its semantic and formal features. Essay is included in narrative types in some classifications and also it is included in informative types in some of. The reason of this confusion is hidden in the definition of the essay. In the general description of the essay, the author tries to adopt an idea to reader in question without proof. The author gives examples from his/her own experiences and life in the process of accepting his/her thought; this case directs the author towards explaining or informing something about his/her thought. So the essay turns into a complex text type. Above all, trying to construct a subjective thought and ascribe this thought to himself / herself and to reader is expected to the author. The researches that how the authors succeed this is not enough in the literature. In this research, under cover of three essays obtained from three artists known as successful essay and artistic text writers (Eliot, Camus, Tanpınar), how these artists aim to associate their own thoughts with readers by using “I” and “We”. Also in this research, the claim that “how the artists adopt their thoughts on readers without proofing” is realized by depicting the usages of pronouns “I” and “We” in essays is analyzed. This study also includes suggestions for the selection of essays used in language and literature teaching. Thus, it has been resulted in the process of teaching the essays or selecting essays in the education of language and literature, the artists who have “I/We/Others” relations in the way of universality and humanity is more appropriate for the principles of modern education.