AN INVESTIGATION INTO AVOIDING PLAGIARISM IN LITERARY ANALYSIS The Case of Second Year Students of English at Amar Thelidji University - Laghouat

Abstract

This study sheds light on the importance of literary analysis in learning English Literature. A literary analysis is an opinion -based type of essay that makes a point about a work of literature usually a poem or short story. Typically, a literary analysis makes a point about literature, and then supports that point by discussing the literary elements. This process is usually considered by EFL students to be very hard. Thus, they simply plagiarise. Plagiarism is a very serious offence; it’s an intellectual theft which may result in severe penalties. The current work on avoiding plagiarism aims to solve this problem. Its purpose is to assist students to identify and prevent such practices by following some guidelines. The qualitative research method is adopted based basically on two questionnaires designed for five teachers of literature and 50 second year LMD students at the Department of English - University of Laghouat. The study took place during the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018. The findings confirmed our hypothesis and came up with using Bloom’s Taxonomy as an effective tool in literary analysis; which can enhance learners’ thinking abilities, and henceforth, we recommend teaching some guidelines about how to paraphrase, how to acknowledge others’ works and how to use Bloom’s Taxonomy of thinking in literature classes to avoid Plagiarism.