Literature and Teaching

Abstract

Why teaching literature is one of the questions with no answers encountered by instructors. There are as many answers as there are teacher and teaching aims and approaches or learners and learning styles. It is prerequisite that literature teachers Implement new Implications in more supportive and collaborative environment in the classroom

The introduction to literary analysis of texts in three major literary genres : fiction, poetry and drama requires a very serious linguistic scrutiny. For it is believed that linguistic contributes a great deal to the learning of a given language.

Grammar, which a part of linguistics, is interested, above all , in the good and adequate usage of language, and formulates rules permitting the learner of a given language (English in this case) to write and speak correctly. Grammar, according to Guelpa Patrick, « elle s’occupe du bonne usage et édicte des règles à respecter » (1997).

Linguistics is not interested only in grammar, in rules of good usage, but in all the other phenomenon intervening in the usage of language : pronunciation, phonology, accent, etymology, pragmatics, level language (registers), history of language, the mistakes made by learner, etc. the linguistic study of a given literary work helps a great deal in the learning process.