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Three Approaches to Teach English through Literature: ELT Students’ Perceptions

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Proceedings of The 4th Global Conference on Education and Teaching

Year: 2023

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/4th.globalet.2023.04.101

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Three Approaches to Teach English through Literature: Students’ Perceptions in the English Language and Teaching Department

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ABSTRACT: 

Literature is appreciated as a prolific material to be used in a language classroom for a long time. As combining literature with language teaching provides students with competences and awareness of foreign language and culture, scholars of foreign language teaching presents three models to use literature effectively in the language classroom, namely, personal enrichment, language-based approach, and literature as content. This study examines these three approaches in terms of their advantages and challenges and present English Language Teaching (ELT) students’ perceptions. The participants of this study were 42 third-grade students of the ELT Department, who took Language and Literature Teaching course at Yozgat Bozok University. Students were provided with methodological assumptions, selection and organization of materials, lesson plan samples, and advantages and disadvantages of each approach during a five-week course period. At the end of the course, an online questionnaire was conducted to collect the data and one open-ended question was asked to investigate the students’ preferences in detail. The results of the questionnaire show that more than half of the participants would prefer literature for personal enrichment as a teaching approach in the language classroom as they believed it to be more motivating than language-based approach and content-based approach to increase learners’ participation and interaction. Participants of this study as future teachers of English suggest that language learners would be more willing to take part in classroom activities if they are given chances to talk about their feelings, thoughts, and experiences through integrating literature into language teaching.

keywords: education, English as a foreign language, literature, personal enrichment, teaching English