Teaching Language and Literature: A Course Book – Banu İnan Karagül,Dilek İnan – Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık

The use of literature for language teaching purposes has always been a controversial issue in different contexts all around the world. It is still being discussed whether it is a good idea to include literary works in the course material list of language classrooms because even though literary works enable learners to see authentic samples of the target language, give them a chance to understand the culture of the target community better and to practice the target language in different aspects, the complexity of the language presented to readers and the length of books make it difficult for teachers to use them with learners of different levels. With the new curriculum suggested by Turkish Higher Education Council (YÖK) in 2018 for Faculties of Education, 2 courses, ‘Literature and Language Teaching I-II’, were replaced by 2 other courses, ‘Teaching Language and Literature I-II’ including some slight changes which were added to the course lists of English Language Teaching Departments ...