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Based on the preceding chapters, the following decalogue of TEFL suggestions may help you meeting the demands of Lit 21.

1 Assess the quality of the text/genre. Is it trash or treasure? However, it is anything but easy to distinguish between the 3 K’s: Kunst, Kitsch, Kommerz.

2 Judge the suitability of the genre for your learner group. Gran-Lit may not be the most appropriate text type for young adults.

3 Evaluate each individual work. Even highly praised works by distinguished Nobel Prize winners like Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro contain long and dreary passages in the first half of the book.

4 Consider reluctant readers. Multi-modal literary texts can be the answer here as they “enable the struggling reader, motivate the reluctant one, and challenge the high-level learner” (McTaggart 2008: 32). Dual coding can ease understanding, thus helping the struggling reader; comics may encourage reluctant ones to read more because of their positive attitude towards this genre; a close study of text-picture relationships can challenge advanced learners.

5 Employ FVR (free voluntary reading) and rely on extensive reading, fun reading, reading for enjoyment – and your classroom library (Thaler 2008).

6 Do not shy away from DEAR (Drop everything and read) – under two conditions: first, everybody must choose a book and read, and second, all must be quiet.

7 Encourage “thinking out of the box” – which may be all the more important in the COS era, i.e. the age of the competence obsession syndrome.

8 Select suitable reading approaches. Many Lit 21 pieces need not be studied along the segment or straight through approach. The sandwich approach, appetizer approach, topic approach, and patchwork approach are suitable alternatives (Thaler 2016b).

9 Make use of intermediality (intertextuality). Numerous film, TV, music and videogame adaptations for many modern works are available (Thaler 2018, 2009).

10 Balance trad fic and Lit 21. Incorporate modern texts into literature instruction as we have pre-millennial fiction and post-millennial fiction, and beside the DWEMs (Dead White English Males), there are also the LANGs (living authors and new genres). Cuncta fluunt.