Investigating the role of teaching english language through literature on EFL students in oral communication : a case study on secondary school students

Abstract EN

This paper intends to investigate the role of integrating the two subjects English language and language of literature in teaching English language; to improve students’ communicative skills etc.(reading , writing , listening and speaking).

The reason of conducting such study is the complicated problem that encouters both teachers and students to feel that literature is a rich source of authentic language to be invested.

The objectives of the study is to improve teachers’ and students’ performance to, reply to the demand of acquiring English language; which became an international language of dealing through the worldwide.

The researcher uses questionnaires for two groups for collecting data, 16 teachers from different schools and for 40 students from Om Oshar Secondary School, in Jebalawlya Locality ,Khartoum State.

Then the data obtained was analyzed by using Statistic Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).

According to the findings and statistical significance there were differences of the questionnaires (29.683) for teachers response and (30.170) for students response and , the significance value (0.00) is less than the normal value (0.05) .The results concludes that literature is a rich source of language teaching .