From the Teaching of Language to the Teaching of Literature: Towards Collaboration Between Teachers of Foreign Languages and Literature.

Abstract

One of the major projects to improve working relationships among teachers of different disciplines in the specialized areas of EFL teaching focuses on the transition between language and literature teachers.

Prior to setup the intended results of such collaboration between teachers of those two different disciplines, one should discuss the long standing tendency to widen the division between the teaching of the foreign language and of foreign literatures. The pattern, indeed usually runs the following course.