The Use of Literary Texts as Authentic Materials in Language Teaching Classes: Othello by Shakespeare

Year 2017, Volume: 21 Issue: 4, 1311 - 1329, 20.12.2017

Ercan Kaçmaz Bengü Aksu Ataç

Abstract

In many universities in Turkey, Literature and Language Teaching is
included in the curriculum. Since literature is authentic, any piece of
literature (poems, plays, short stories, and novels) could be used in such
classes and turned into a source of teaching material. This paper aims to
determine what the ELT teacher candidates consider useful, attainable and
relevant for their students and whether they will use plays by drama activities
in their classes or not. An action research has been carried out to obtain
information from 2nd year ELT teacher candidates at Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli
University, Faculty of Education. They have been given a questionnaire with 6
open-ended questions. At the end of the study, findings and results have been
discussed and analyzed.

Keywords

Literary Texts, Language Teaching, Authentic Materials, English Language Teaching

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