Teaching language through the use of literature in ESL classes with the implementation of CEFR

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 531 - 539, 02.02.2017

Sümeyra Bağatur

https://doi.org/10.24289/ijsser.272855

Abstract

For language teaching many resources have been used as a vehicle to teach the
language more efficiently in the course of time. It is, however, widely accepted that
literature has proved to the the best and the most beneficial resource in language
teaching. It is of great value in this sense. This paper will first present some ideas
about the use of literature in language teaching, then, I will explain why we use
literature, and how we should choose literary texts in our language classes. In the
following part, I will present the second part of the paper, which is composed of the
literary genres like novel, short story, drama and poetry. And in the closing part, I
will give an interpretation of Common European Framework of References (CEFR)
and how the use of literature can be implemented into CEFR in language teaching.

Keywords

English language teaching, literature in language teaching, Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)

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