Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
International Astana Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (ICHSES), Astana, Kazakistan, 23 Kasım 2021, cilt.1, ss.76-77
The role of literature has been changed in recent years, and it has taken its inevitable place in
the foreign language teaching curriculum. Language classrooms are moving away from
conventional teacher-centered education to student-centered education. Millennium and post-millennium students are now seeking more opportunities to discover their own learning
instead of being directed by an authority. As students are not heavily dependent on teachers,
they have a chance to do a critical reading or analytical reading by giving them authentic
literary texts.
This current study aims to shed a light on why a language teacher should use literary texts in
the foreign language classroom and the benefits of different genres of literature to language
teaching. An application of a play will be presented in order to foster the use of
novels as a literary text in language classrooms.