Question

what is the role of literature in personality development

Answer 1

Language and literature are the study of man, the study of life, conscience, honor and self-esteem. ... Vulāne, A., Stikute, E. The Role of Literature and Language in the Personality Development: Insight into the Problem. The Humanities and Social Sciences.

Answer 2

Now general human and national values and ideals become more significant; the formation of an intellectually developed, creative personality becomes more topical. Language and literature are the study of man, the study of life, conscience, honor and self-esteem. It means that language and literature is closely connected with the inner world of the personality and the formation of the value system. Those give a possibility for the pupil to experience the life of the literary heroes, their fate, different models of people’s relationships, moods and emotional feelings as well as enjoy the power of the word and develop the sense of language. Literature plays a paramount importance in the development of a lingual personality.Already in the first half of the previous century the specialists on teaching the language and literature unanimously agreed that literature takes a special place in the learning content and it should be taught as the art subject because one of its most important tasks is the education of man and cultivation of the intellectual world. The experience should reflect in the child’s soul; it should cause a reaction there which results in the intellectual growth, development and formation of the young individual. The main task of the teacher in teaching the creative work is to create in pupils deep and true emotional experience, on the one hand, and to reveal the mastery of the language’s applicability, to encourage pupils to form their own utterances by learning from the works of language masters. A literary work allows the child to learn the life in its diversity, to admire the good, the beautiful and noble, to suffer and to learn the evil, foul, and violent through the experience of others – the heroes of the piece of art. Thus it is so important to encourage a serious dialogue between the pupil and the teacher, the pupil and the piece of art in the lessons of the Latvian language and literature, which will result in the formation of the children’s and young persons’ value system, understanding of the world, the development of their sense of language and the idea that a book is an essential accessory of a modern personality.