The significant role of literature in the 3rd intermediate class curriculum "English For Iraq"

الملخص EN

Indeed, English literature is used as a raw material in various areas such as the political field and psychology area that used by psychiatrists for psychoanalyzing and politicians used it in pragmatic issues while linguists also used it for analyzing in different fields because it helps in trans different meanings and interludes among universal cultures.

Thus, English literature plays a vital role in ELT in the multi-levels in general and the "English For Iraq" curriculum (the 3rd intermediate class) specifically because it is regarded as the key component in most language programs.

In most situations, it serves as the basis for many language inputs that students receive from language practices that take place in the classroom.

The current study aims for showing the significant role of literature in the 3rd Intermediate Class Curriculum "English for Iraq" as ELT for discovering the two indexes: cultural dimensions and linguistics content which support the process of sense and recognition distribution in the four language skills i.e., (listening, speaking, reading, and writing).

For this purpose, surely it supplies the basis for the content of the lessons, the balance of skills being presented and the kinds of language practice in which the students participate in the activities such as textbooks, stories time, then the names of some literary works, poetry, the visuals of the textbooks and characters, persons…etc., that make students learn the various contexts and intercultural or multicultural among languages that lead them to get more acculturation