This document discusses using literature to teach language skills. It recommends selecting texts based on relevance, linguistic difficulty, and cultural appropriateness. Literature can teach speaking, listening, reading and writing in an integrated way. For reading, discussions should start literally and move to inferential understanding. Writing is improved through literature's model of content, theme and style. Speaking and listening are developed through oral exercises that dramatize or discuss literature. Poetry, short stories, drama and novels each provide benefits and should be selected based on motivating students and developing skills.
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Literature and Language Teaching
This document discusses using literature to teach language skills. It recommends selecting texts based on relevance, linguistic difficulty, and cultural appropriateness. Literature can teach speaking, listening, reading and writing in an integrated way. For reading, discussions should start literally and move to inferential understanding. Writing is improved through literature's model of content, theme and style. Speaking and listening are developed through oral exercises that dramatize or discuss literature. Poetry, short stories, drama and novels each provide benefits and should be selected based on motivating students and developing skills.
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LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
TEACHING LITERARY TEXTS
TEXT SELECTION : texts need to be chosen that have
relevance and interest to learners.
LINGUISTIC DIFFICULTY : texts need to be appropriate to
the level of the student’s comprehension.
LENGTH: shorter texts may be easier to use within the
class time available, but longer texts provide more contextual details, and development of character and plot.
CULTURAL APPROPRIACY :Learners should not be
offended by the textual content. Literary Work and Language Teaching Literature is of great significance in teaching speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. While it is typical to teach every language skill separately, it should be considered that when using literature for teaching language, the four skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) should not be taught separately. Instead, they should be taught in an integrated manner. Instructors should consider the four skills as an essential segment of oral as well as written language application. Literary Work and Reading
Language instructors should choose a student-based method towards
understanding of literary texts. In reading classes, discussions can begin literally by asking questions about setting, characters, and plot of selected texts. When learners have literal understanding, then they can go to the inferential level in which they should have some investigations and interpretations of the characters, settings, and themes as well as the author’s view point. After understanding a literary text both literally and inferentially, learners should be ready for a group work in which they can share their assessments of the work. The individual evaluation motivates the learners to activate their imagination about the work and even find some solutions to their problems. Literary Work and Writing
Literature is a valuable and reliable source for
developing writing skills . Literature provides the learners with a model that provokes them to write like the original work in content, theme, style and organization. Literature embodies variety of themes to write on. Thus, it can give enough ideas to the learners to start their writing with. Literary Work, Speaking, and Listening
Literature can be a valuable source for
teaching speaking and listening skills. Activities such as oral reading, dramatization, pantomiming, discussion, and group activities can be considered as the ways through which language teachers can improve the students’ listening and speaking . Advantages of Teaching Different Genres of Literature Use of Poetry in Teaching Language Poetry is a significant genre for teaching and learning language skills. Some benefits of teaching poetry for language learning can be counted as follows: (1) Providing learners with different viewpoints towards language applications. (2) Motivating the learners for personal interpretations and explanations. (3) Evoking emotions and ideas in both heart and mind. (4) Making the learner familiar with figures of speech (metaphor, simile, etc.). (5) Poetry is rhythmical and memorable than prose. Also, students become familiar with stress, pitch, juncture and intonation by studying poetry. Use of Short Story in Teaching Language Short story can be seen as a significant genre for teaching language. In short stories, characters play authentically and symbolically, as individuals do in their daily life. Indeed, short stories mirror and illuminate human lives. Some of the benefits are: (1) Facilitating the learners’ reading task because of being short and simple in comparison with other literary genres. (2) Promoting the learners’ attitudes and knowledge on different cultures. (3) Offering a world of wonders and mystery. (4) Developing critical thinking ability Use of Drama in Teaching Language Drama is an enrich source for teaching language. By using drama the learners can learn the application of language. The instructors can use drama to promote the learners’ comprehension of life experience. The advantages of teaching drama:
(1) Stimulating the imagination and promoting creative thinking. (2)
Developing critical thinking ability. (3) Heightening influential listening skills. (4) Providing the instructors with a fresh perspective on teaching. (5) Developing creativity, originality, sensitivity, flexibility, cooperation, and communication skills. (6) Helping the learners develop their level of competence with respect to their receptive and productive skills. (7) Helping the learners develop new opinions and thoughts. Also drama helps in enhancing conversational abilities Use of Novel in Teaching Language Novel can be a very rich source for developing linguistic structures as well as learning language. Choosing the appropriate novel can give the learner enough motivation to learn language . Using novel for learning a language can have the following benefits: (1) Developing the learners’ knowledge about different cultures, traditions, societies, and people. (2) Offering real life like settings. (3) Giving the learners the chance to use their creativity. (4) Improving critical thinking ability. (5) Stimulating the learners’ imagination. (6) Developing both oral and written language skills. When selecting a novel for teaching language, the instructor should consider whether the novel has an interesting story that motivates the entire class. Moreover, characters, themes, and settings of a novel should be considered in selecting a novel. Although some learners may think reading a novel is studious and boring, it can be an influential tool for developing reading comprehension skills and building vocabulary. Conclusion Literature provides opportunities for language classes and can appeal to the students with various learning styles. Literary texts are reliable sources of linguistic inputs and can help the students practice the four skills–speaking, listening, reading and writing. Literature can help the students enhance their perception of other cultures and societies. Literature is representational instead of referential. While referential language tends to communicate at only one level and is informational, representational language of literature considers the students and involves their feelings and perceptions of the real world. Literary texts help the students to activate their imagination and develop their emotion THANKYOU