Reimagining Literature in the English Language Teaching Context in the Russian and Armenian Higher Education
Reimagining Literature in the English Language Teaching Context in the Russian and Armenian Higher Education

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to discuss the role of literature in teaching English as a foreign language. The interest in the topic is caused by the growing need to improve the content and approaches to teaching English as a foreign language at university departments that train teachers, linguists and philologists. The underlying argument is that the inclusion of literature in the language-teaching syllabus, the careful choice of the material and the appropriate means of its teaching may facilitate the assimilation of the language knowledge and enhance cultural knowledge. Further, the paper argues that the use of literature may be beneficial in terms of increasing the functional literacy of language learners. Translation and visualization are discussed as highly productive means of helping students fight the feeling of disorientation in text. To enhance the efficiency of the use of literature in class the authors offer a number of approaches to reading activities. The discussion and our observations can be helpful for all those specialists who face the dilemma of including literature in teaching English as a foreign language or are reconsidering their techniques of teaching literature by adapting it to the needs of learners.

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