The use of the project-based learning to bridge the gap between teaching literature and English language instruction

الملخص EN

Literature has gained a plethora of attention in EFL classes for the last decades.

teachers find themselves swinging between the pans of teaching literature for the sake of literature and using it as a means to teach the language.

consequently, a gap between language and literature emerges and calls for adequate teaching methodologies.

this paper intends to explore the loopholes of teaching English through literary texts in the department of English at Abbess Laghrour university and proposes a project-based approach to teach literary texts.

data have been gathered by the means of a questionnaire administered to teachers of the English department.

the obtained results show that teachers encounter difficulties in teaching literary texts to reach language goals and they find that project-based learning can help them in enabling learners to make well-informed decisions, construct their personal identities, and helps them in better communication.