Approaches to teaching literature. An Overview

Abstract

This article is intended to describe some of the most common approaches used when teaching literature. There is, of course, a plethora of reasons in favour of using literature in the EFL classes and films as a supplementary material.  One of these reasons is that literature provides authentic material and films provide exposure to more authentic language and context. Moreover, visual images stimulate students’ perceptions directly by bringing the real world into the class. Several researchers’, scholars’ and educators’ works on the use of these approaches will be considered in the current article.