LITERATURE (LITERARY MATERIALS) ENRICHES LANGUAGE LEARNING SKILLS

Abstract

Literary materials that give a boost for target language learning provide linguistic model, authenticity, motivation, convenience and linguistic competence through which a foreign language is likely to be learned properly. Therefore, teachers might benefit from literature of a target language in order to enhance students’ language learning skills such as; reading, writing, speaking, and listening in language classroom. Teachers have enough freedom to choose the topics they will use in the class. Especially, teachers need to consider the materials, which increase the involvement of the students properly, since those materials give students courage to be active in the classroom and make them to be more confident in order to interact for the topics chosen by their teachers. Also, literature is considered the main source to make students creative, for the students experience properly literary usages in the literary materials, which involve samples of real life situations. The qualitative and instructional approaches were utilized in order to clarify language learning skills with aid of literary material. First & secondary data and also the researcher’ personal views were taken into account in the present study. The study revealed that literature increases all language skills, since it extends linguistic knowledge through giving evidence of extensive and subtle vocabulary usage, and complex and exact syntax. It also gives students the opportunity to strengthen language skills more as it often considerably enables oral discussions and exchange of opinions. This study demonstrated that literary materials firstly, provide opportunities of examples of “good” writing, linguistic diversity, expressive ranges, etc. Secondly, they give a scope for genuine linguistic material, thirdly, they motivate a learner genuinely not artificially, and lastly, they present a handy and photocopiable resource for teachers/students.