Abstract
IMPROVING EFL PERFORMANCE VIA TEACHING LITERATURE
*Dr. Abdulbagi Babiker Ali, Dr. Fatima Ibrahim Eltayeb Hamid and Abdurahman Abdallah Ahmed
ABSTRACT
The current Study aimed at finding a way to.improve EFL learners? competence, help learners enhance their language performance, bring motivation in EFL classes and develop students? critical thinking abilities through literary texts. The study was to deal with difficulties in communicating cultural insights among EFL learners. Some of them lack vocabulary to communicate their ideas, others are not able to interact for expressing their opinions about the topics or discussions. This study tries to improve learners language performance through reading literary texts the study is an attempt to test hypotheses that. Literary texts improve EFL learners? communicative competence, Literary texts enhances EFL learners? performance, Literary texts brings enjoyment and motivation in the classroom and.using literary texts develops students? critical thinking. This study shows the importance of teaching literary texts in EFL classroom. It also advises the teachers to select materials that enhance learners? language performances and bring entertaining situations in EFL classes. Furthermore, the study intends to widen learners? knowledge about global themes when teaching literary texts. Following descriptive analytical approach, the researchers used a questionnaire according to the questions and hypotheses. The final adjusted version was dministered to the target sample. Data was collected, organized, tabulated, analyzed and discussed. Finally results were listed and recommendations were set.
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