THE ROLE OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Keywords:
Literature, culture, literary textsAbstract
It is clearly known that literature is generally used in English Language Teaching (ELT) for the development of knowledge about the language. It helps the learners to get familiar with the sociopolitical backgrounds of target language society and also makes them understand how communication takes place in a particular community. Ideal literary text with good quality can stimulated the language learning among the readers and it can elicit a wide range of responses from the learners which are facilitating for language learning.
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