TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH LITERATURE AND INTEGRATING LITERATURE INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Literature plays a very important role in teaching four basic language skills like reading, writing, listening and speaking. However, when using literature within the language classroom, skills should never be taught in isolation but in an integrated way. Teachers should attempt to teach basic language skills as an integral a part of oral and written communication use, as a part of the means for creating both referential and interactional meaning, not merely as a facet of the oral and written production of words, phrases and sentences.