The Use of Literature in Teaching English as a Foreign Language By: Amr Alhemiary Abstract This research aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading‚ writing‚ speaking and listening)and language areas(i.e. vocabulary‚ grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary text in a foreign language classroom‚ suitable situations for teaching literature and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts
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The use of the English language plays a crucial and dominant role in African literature. In contemporary African literature the use of English is often the key element for success as an African writer. This enables them to express their views across a larger area of today’s global world. However writing in English instead of their native tongues may come at a high price for these African writers. By them replacing their native languages with English could eventually lead to the eradication of their
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The Importance of the 20th Century Literature The dawning of a new century marked a distinct change in the style and subjects of literature. Rural‚ agrarian lifestyles were fast becoming a thing of the past as industrialization made factory work the norm‚ and many people began to feel isolated despite living in big cities. Writers who identified as “modernists” reflected this new sense of isolation and displacement in their works. The entire Western world was also deeply affected by the devastation
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of her youth‚ at 21. She is often called the Keats of the Indo-English literature for more than one reason - her meteoric rise on and disappearance from the literary firmament‚ as also for the quality of her poetry. James Darmesteter pays a befitting tribute to her‚ "The daughter of Bengal‚ so admirable and so strangely gifted‚ Hindu by race and tradition‚ and an English woman by education‚ a French woman at heart‚ a poet in English‚ prose writer in French‚ who at the age of 18 made India acquainted
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INTRODUCTION Indian English novels refer to the various novels by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian Diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial
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Medieval Period What is it all about? - it is all about the period‚ age or era after the fall of Roman Empire and the beginning of "rebirth" or the Rennaisance period. - it is the bridge with these two very important eras in literature. What is the meaning of medieval and period? - the term medieval comes from the latin word "medium aevum" which means "middle age". Medieval was 1st used in the 19th century and the original spelling of it is "mediavel". -period means a length
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Periods of British Literature: 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period 1066-1500: Middle English Period 1500-1660: The Renaissance 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age 1603-1625: Jacobean Age 1625-1649: Caroline Age 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum) 1660-1785: The Neoclassical Period 1660-1700: The Restoration 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) 1785-1830: The Romantic Period 1832-1901: The Victorian
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Throughout the course of the year during my time in AP Senior English Literature I have considerably improved my writing abilities during my time in your class. The amount of time I put forward towards my studies in your class has shown through my grades and essays. Compared to where I was at in Pre-AP English Literature I feel I have grown in my ability to write more fluently than ever before. I have fully grasped the concepts of writing in MLA format and I fully understand the CEW structure of
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rhetorical strategies of erotic and political courtship were porous and constantly shifting. It is perfectly acceptable‚ treating Renaissance texts as if they were islands of the autonomous literary imagination. One of the greatest writers of the period‚ Sir Philip Sidney‚ defended poetry in just such terms; the poet‚ Sidney writes in The Defence of Poetry(NAEL 1.933-54)‚ is not constrained by nature or history but freely ranges "only within the zodiac of his own wit." Many sixteenth-century artists
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Constitutional Period/Critical Period/Federalist Period 1783-1800 By Emily Rose‚ Rachel Brunsman‚ and Stephanie Fullenwider Overview Ending the American Revolution‚ the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1783. During the war‚ the Articles of Confederation had been drafted‚ creating a confederation out of the colonies for the first time. Under the Articles‚ the government could not raise an army or tax. It also lacked centralized power because of the absence of an executive branch. The only strong
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