'Literature provides wonderful material for eliciting strong emotional responses in our students' (Lazar, 1993: 3). Using literature in language lessons is a way to engage students as whole people and offers them many opportunities where they can express their feelings, personal opinions and reactions. Furthermore, Kramsch (1993) argues that the teaching of literature reveals "its capacity to represent a writer's particular voice among the many voices of his community and thus to appeal to the particular in the reader" (pp. 130-131 cited in Carroli, 2008: 8). However, since teachers use literature as an authentic text, students immediately show their interest, since it is not a normal reading text found in the textbook. Therefore, higher level students can easily be absorbed by the plot and characters, so as to acquire the new language in its best form. “Literature then becomes an important way to supplement the inevitably limited input of the classroom” (Lazar, 1993: 17). As a result, students benefit from such an authentic text, especially in language areas such as grammar, syntax and vocabulary. Furthermore, students will be encouraged to delve into political, historical and social aspects. Such aspects will form the cultural background of a particular play or novel. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to exchange opinions and ideas about a poem, novel, or play. Initially, it should be better for the student to understand the language to appreciate the literature. Students should also be able to get teachers' help with the most important aspects of interest in the text. However, the main objective... in the middle of the paper... is to consider how long the text should be, whether it will be long or short, and the availability of the texts or books. Therefore, they need to consider whether such texts fit the program and what different types of texts will be needed to take advantage of the provided text. However, to find out what their students care about, teachers use various ways to collect data from their students. A common way of collecting data is to interview or question students. Another way to collect data is to use a checklist. With checklists, teachers can remove or add any criteria they deem important or less important during their search. However, teachers need to consider many aspects when teaching literature in the language. Consequently, if they are well prepared, any discipline in language classes will be avoided.
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