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Using literature in the ESL and EFL classrooms has benefits in several main areas. Literature is beneficial tolanguage development. It is a good resource of accurate diction, diverse sentence patterns, and passionate narratives(Ghosn, 2002). Since literature is related to real-life situations, it deals with accurate diction. The languageemployed in literature is the language of its audience, so it cannot be inaccurate. Also, since literature deals withdifferent moods as well as situations, it is prevalent with diverse forms of sentences. Actually, different people talkand write differently. As such, literature contains all these various forms of use of language. Besides, passion has itsown value in literature. When reading literature texts, the reader is engaged with this passionate aspect of the text.Engagement is generally thought of as a key component of learning environment, especially learning Englishlanguage. This engagement is created especially through conflict prevailing literary works. Of course, conflict is notonly present in narrative forms; it exists in all literary works, even in a short poem, as the poet creates a situation inwhich the reader encounters conflict in understanding what the poet means. What is important is that conflictresolution and communication strategies are best mediums to create learning environment for engagement. Kolonder& Guzdial, (1990); and Schank, (1990) believe that human knowledge is largely composed of an index of stories,personal narratives, and first- and second-hand experiences that we draw on and reuse as they are found to berelevant to the situation at hand. As such, the significance of literature in promoting English learners is beyonddoubt as they bring knowledge to them. It, in fact, gives them second-hand problem solving experiences.
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