The Impact of Using Literature on Foreign Language Learning Development The Case of Third Year Secondary School (Biskra)
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2016-03-07
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University of Eloued جامعة الوادي
Abstract
Linguistics and literature are two interwoven domains though they seem different.
They play a major role in one‘s (foreign) language learning process. In the 20th
century, the relationship between linguistics and literature has changed and became
more interesting to know that they can, together, enhance language learning/teaching.
The development of the communicative approaches to language learning, the aim of
language learning was to encourage the communicative competence in the foreign
language, so that students would have the opportunity to express their ideas in the
target language. Teaching literature can provide assistance in language learning as it
makes teaching/ learning linguistic features easier and motivating. Using literary texts
in teaching the assigned language forms is, then, of vital importance as it provides
learners with authentic and cultural material for language learning and encourages
their cognitive and communicative processes. In this paper, we shall shed light on two
arguments for teaching literature in the foreign language class. 1. Literature helps in
language acquisition through inferencing and narratives that suit students‘ cognitive
development; 2. It gives access into the target culture and facilitates its potential
contact with the learners‘ culture.
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THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, MIND AND LEARNER'S COGNITIVE CAPACITIES March, 7th/8th 2016 University of Eloued
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language, literature, language acquisition, cognitive development, cultural awareness