The Role of Literature in ELT

Literature generally comes to identify a collection of texts. Most generally, a literature is equated with a collection of stories, poems, and plays that revolve around a particular topic. Literature has been generally used in English Language Teaching (ELT) classroom for the development of knowledge about language. In ELT, using literature has four advantages, to facilitate intelligence and sensibility training, to stimulate students’ creative and literary imagination, to improve students’ general cultural awareness, and to enhance the psycholinguistic aspect of language learning.

First advantage of literature in ELT is to facilitate intelligence and sensibility training. Through literature, students give the possibility to speak about science, even if they don’t work in this domain, or they can express their opinion about a political aspect, just because they have read something connected to that. Another opinion, Parkinson and Thomas (2000: 9-11)

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Appreciation Towards The Story “God Sees the Truth, But Waits” by Leo Tolstoy

In my view, this story is really amazing. Sad story actually. But it is great. You should read it. I also put the appreciation at the bottom. Enjoy...

Story:

In the town of Vladimir lived a young merchant named Ivan Dmitrich Aksionov. He had two shops and a house of his own.

Aksionov was a handsome, fair-haired, curly-headed fellow, full of fun, and very fond of singing. When quite a young man he had been given to drink, and was riotous when he had had too much; but after he married he gave up drinking, except now and then.

One summer Aksionov was going to the Nizhny Fair, and as he bade good-bye to his family, his wife said to him, "Ivan Dmitrich, do not start to-day; I have had a bad dream about you."

Aksionov laughed, and said, "You are afraid that when I get to the fair I shall go on a spree."

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apapun namanya... firstly

Posting pake bahasa Indonesia dulu ah, refreshing,hhehe.. soalnya ga perlu repot2 mikirin vocab, grammar, struktur bahasa, yang penting nulis asal ajalah untuk sekarang,,hhihi…

Aku pengen berbagi pengalaman pertamaku sebagai seorang pendidik, kelak kan nantinya aku insyaAllah bakal jadi pendidik juga, pengennya jadi dosen, pengen banget, dosen Bahasa Inggris pastinya, buat yang baca, AMIN yaaa  biar Allah mengabulkan,, AMIN… :D

Hari ini, 17 Januari 2011, hari senin, aku pertama kalinya mengajar secara formal, soalnya kan biasanya

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