LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:7 July 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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Addressing the Unaddressed:
Considering Specific Teaching Context in Exploiting Short Stories to Teach Language to EFL Learners

Shuvo Saha, M.A. in ELT

Abstract

All the research works on the significance of literature in ELT (English language teaching) almost unanimously concur to the point that literary texts as authentic source of language input have tremendous potential to aid language teaching. Short story in particular is considered with added value due to its motivating nature which is embedded within. This paper exploits two short stories and designs a series of language tasks to teach the English language skills?listening, speaking, reading, and writing? to tertiary level students from private universities in EFL setting. The aim is to acquaint EFL instructors with the way short stories can be exploited as text to design language activities and implement them effectively utilizing all the available facilities of a particular teaching context like that of private universities. The study, moreover, discusses some of the pragmatic challenges of employing literature for language teaching purpose and finally reflects on the scope for further research.

1. Introduction

In twenty-first century’s trend of language teaching pedagogy in EFL setting, there has been a constant cry for incorporating authentic materials that considers learners’ impulse as opposed to traditional course books, which according to Lau, include many dully written materials neglecting the interests of language learners (2002, p.1). A number of researchers, in this vein, advocate literature to be used as a resource as well as a tool in EFL classroom (see Lau, 2002; Khatib et al., 2011; Yeasmin et al., 2011; Pardede, 2011; Khatib & Rahimi, 2012).

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Shuvo Saha, M.A. in ELT (English Language Teaching)
East West University
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