The use of literature as a technique for teaching both basic language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) is very popular within the field of foreign language learning and teaching.
In relation to reading skill reading literature also deals with the development of students’ vocabulary enrichment. By reading literature, students find new words, the more they read the more they enrich their vocabulary.
Literature can be a powerful and motivating source for writing in ESL/EFL. In writing the students are directed to produce a piece of writing in relation to the novel. Teacher then inspects the students’ work with regard to contents of intrinsic elements.
With regard to speaking and listening teachers can make listening comprehension and pronunciation interesting, motivating and contextualized at the upper levels, playing a recording or video of a literary work, or reading literature aloud themselves. Having students read literature aloud contributes to developing speaking as well as listening ability. Moreover, it also leads to improving pronunciation.
Students are directed to read the novel and then to retell the main idea of the story. In the meantime, students are also told to listen to their partners who read out the story.
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Austen, J. (2012). Pride and prejudice. San Diego: Canterbury Classics.
Bela, A.R. (2014). A thesis: The value of humanity in Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian and its contributions to teaching English as a foreign language. Palembang: University of PGRI.
Brown, H.D. (2000). Principle of language learning and teaching. San Francisco: Longman.
Bunch, C. (1990). A journal: Women's rights as human rights. Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.
