Literature can be a powerful and motivating source for writing in ESL/EFL, both as a model and as subject matter. Literature as a model occurs when student writing becomes closely similar to the original work or clearly imitates its content, theme, organization, and /or style.
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. Other activity, students can be reporters doing a live newscast, or they can rewrite a third person passage into first person from a character’s point of view.
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Literature, Speaking, and Listening
With regard to speaking and listening Hismanoglu (2005:7) stated that language 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.
Furthermore, there are other contributions by using novel in English Language Teaching. The use of a novel is a beneficial technique for mastering not only linguistic system but also life in relation to the target language. In novel, characters reflect what people really perform in daily lives. Novels not only portray but also enlighten human lives.Â
Using novel in a foreign language class offers some educational benefits, such as develop the advanced level readers’ knowledge about different cultures and different groups of people, increase students’ motivation to read owing to being an authentic material, offer real life settings, give students the opportunity to make use of their creativity, improve critical thinking skills, pave the way for teaching the target language culture, enable students to go beyond what is written and dive into what is meant.
CONCLUSION
Feminism can be seen in Jane Austen’s novel in the form of existing system of entailment. Entailment in Pride and Prejudice, the restriction of future ownership of real-estate to particular descendants, is limited solely to male heirs. As Mr. Bennet has no male children, his estate will be entailed to Mr. Collins as opposed to his own daughters.
