SHOULD LITERATURE BE INCLUDED IN A COURSE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS?
SHOULD LITERATURE BE INCLUDED IN A COURSE OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS?

Summary/Abstract: This article debates the opportunity of introducing literature teaching in the courses of foreign languages in secondary schools. If the answer is affirmative, it proposes a few attitudes and methods to be adopted by the teacher in the process. The article is mainly based on Penny Ur’s, Jeremy Harmer’s, Jim Scrivener’s, Adriana Vizental’s and Susan L. Stern’s opinions, but it includes some other methodology writers’ opinions, and also on a few personal suggestions of the author. It evinces the belief that, far from being inappropriate for teaching a foreign language skill as integrated ones, literature can be used as a genuine source of foreign language for teaching purposes instead of artificially conceived samples of language.

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