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language becomes a means for its own real function. It is not just a means for practice. Language becomes a meansin the hands of learners and manipulated by them to use their background knowledge to understand authentic texts,e ofliterature, the focus is "on process rather than product", the emphasis is on "negotiation rather than predetermination",and the teacher "acts as facilitator" and "not just instructor" (17). The significant point is thatliterature provides learners with texts which are above the level of their production/understanding. This aspect ofliterature is in accordance with Krashen's acquisition-based methodology; that is, input +1 theory. In fact, literaturehelps students to improve their reading comprehension of English. They give chance to the students as well asteachers to set various forms of questions based on their contents. Through these questions, students become fluentspeakers and writers. Literary texts enable teachers to use different forms of questions to evaluate students' comprehension, such as completion, true or false, matching and discussion forms. Literature develops learners'strategies; they listen and read for general meaning, predict and guess the meaning of unfamiliar words. Since, whendiscussing about the contents of the subject matter, they have to verbalize their own thoughts, they develop higherlevels of thinking skills. Also, their frequent engagement with words reinforces students' tendency to inducemeaning from the contexts in which they appear. Memorizing words from a dictionary is a futile and exhausting job.It results in failure and monotony. Literary texts provide us with a lot of opportunity to learn effectively to usewords in different contexts. Literature helps students to go beyond the surface meaning and dive into underlyingmeanings; that is, it enables students to go beyond what is written and dive into what is meant.
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