Chapter 5: Conclusion
5.4 Concluding remarks
Working with this thesis has provided me with new perspectives, both personally and
professionally. I have found answers to many questions with implications for my own role as a teacher of English, and I am highly motivated for exploring this field further in the future.
Moreover, I am greatly thankful for the insight I have been given through the conversations with these seven informants. It has been highly meaningful to me, as they have shared their
101 personal experiences about something that I find to be very important: reading literature in the language-learning classroom!
The ways in which the learners experience encounters with literature, both within and beyond the classroom can be as many, and as complex, as there are learners in our classrooms. I am convinced – and even more so now than before – that the literary reading experience is unique. By sharing one’s reading experience with others, it can grow and become even more facetted, and even more meaningful. It can be like opening up a treasure chest of wisdom.
Through involvement with literature, we can get the sensation of understanding or realizing something new, something we have not thought about before, something that can change us and “put pressure on” what we have “thought and believed up till this point” (Tova1).
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