How do you think that your understanding and appreciation of literature can be enhanced by working either in pairs or in small group?

Understanding and appreciation of literature can be enhanced by working in small groups because as the group members share their experiences with literature, they clarify and articulate their reactions, their ideas and their belieft about what they have read. Working in small groups provide social context for readers. This sense of social community has an impact on readers' interest with the text. Reading and experiencing literature are not solitary experiences in which the sole interactions are between the reader and the text. The involvement between readers and the text provide only two dimensional viewpoint. The third dimension of the literature experience involves the social aspect when the readers share the reading experience.
Meanwhile, working in pairs is another way of learning literature. Learning partners may respond to each other in their dialogue journal share their writtings with each other or develop creative project together. An inherent benefit to this approach is that both partners have mutual responsibilities and mutual needs and therefore the level of commitment and involvement is usually high.