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Literature in EFL/ESL classrooms : par - Coggle Diagram
Literature in EFL/ESL classrooms : 
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Literature has some advantages, like:
- Authenticity: it provides authentic language learning and non-trivial.
- Motivation: it transmits meaningful content.
- Cultural/Intercultural Awareness and Globalization: universal needs and information.
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Literature also has disadvantages:
- Syntax: sometimes they have complex structures.
- Lexis: old and outdated
vocabulary
- Phonetics and Phonology: changes in the pronunciation might bring misunderstandings.
- Semantics: the change of meanings can affect.
- Selection of Materials: important to consider language proficiency, age, gender, and background knowledge
- Literary Concepts and Notions: Lack of knowledge of some literary concepts makes it demanding to understand.
- Literature and Academic English: low help on the academic settings or specialized fields.
- Cultural Barriers: makes understanding literature frustrating.
Five approaches:
- Maley: critical literacy (focus on the literariness) and stylistic (focus on literature as ‘text’).
- Carter and Long: language based, literature as content or culture, and Literature as Personal Growth or Enrichment**
- Amer: The Story Grammar Approach (interaction between the reader and the text), Reader Response Approach (teaching literature for literature’s sake not for language learning).
- Van: new criticism, structuralism, stylistics, reader-response, language-based, and critical literacy.
- Timucin and Savvidou’s: integrated approach to teaching
literature where some or all of the above-mentioned approaches are reconciled in a systematic way