The Power Of Literary Works In Teaching English To Efl Classrooms Case Study: Third Year English Students – Ammar Thelidji University Laghouat 2020/2021

Résumé: Literature in general is known as an important tool in teaching English language to foreign language learners. This study aimed at showing the relationship between literary works and English language acquisition. In other words, it is a study of how literary works influence learners of EFL, in what way do literary works affect them in their language package, and focused on the power of these works in the process of teaching English to EFL learners in several basics of the language. This study required a special tool in collecting the data needed to accomplish the work, which is the questionnaire that was administrated to a sample of 30 students of third year in the Department of English, Ammar Thelidji Laghouat. The questionnaire consists of several questions in order to know the students’ point of view toward the use of literary works in EFL classes. The results achieved from the answers of the questionnaire show that the majority of students believed that literary works help them in developing the four main skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), in addition to that literary works gave them the opportunity to learn new vocabulary and grammar, enhancing their critical thinking, as well as making them explore new cultures and civilizations

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