LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13:7 July 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Creative Techniques of Teaching Literature

Dr. Mrs. Anisa G. Mujawar, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.

Significance of the Study of English Literature

The study of English language is gaining more and more significance and its inevitability is felt meticulously in the global contexts. The learning of English is inexorable in the present milieu as it has become the link language. However, the teachers and learners of English in India where students are the non-native learners of English face many problems related to teaching-learning of English. The teachers have to develop essential skills of students to teach them to express themselves in English in academic as well as real life contexts.

Along with the study of English language, study of English literature is also important. The English literature has a wide readership. Hence, study of this literature widens the literary spectrum of readers. Indian students are to be inspired to consider the study of English literature as significant as the study of English language. It is valuable even in language learning.

Culture and Literature

Most of the Indian universities prescribe the British, the American, and the Commonwealth literature. Except the Indian literature, the Indian students cannot easily understand the whole body of the British or the American or any other literature. These literatures contain various allusions, customs, manners, mythologies, and other details. They refer to various social, political, religious references. If the Indian students have to understand the foreign literature, they must know its context and background. They have to comprehend the lexical items in the text that carry the thematic or content meaning in the piece of literature. If they do not know the context, there is a possibility of ennui while studying literature. It is therefore the duty of the teachers of literature to make the study of English literature interesting and also sustain students’ motive to seek an appropriate pleasure and knowledge which is usually found in studying literature. Consequently, it is indispensable to find out some creative techniques to teach English literature to the Indian students.

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Dr. Mrs. Anisa G. Mujawar, M. A., M. Phil., Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Head, Department of English
Chhatrapati Shivaji College, Satara
Satara 415001
Maharashtra
India
anisamujawar@yahoo.co.in
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