TECHNIQUES FOR SELECTING AND EVALUATING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERARY TEXTS

Abstract

One of the most crucial issues in literature course is the choice of text. Text choice is regarded by many teachers as a mechanical matter as long as some titles and authors are provided within the programme content. Thus, they never bother about that, only when the works are not available in the local library, but nowadays most of these works are available on the internet. Some teachers also choose texts that they find more easily comprehensible and appealing to their readers or those which may go with the linguistic abilities of their students. Others also choose texts according to their length or brevity taking into consideration load and time allotted to reading sessions. The present paper presents some elaborated techniques and measures to help teachers select and evaluate reading texts appropriately.