HOW MUCH IMPORTANT COULD BE  LITERATURE ON LEARNING-TEACHING PROCESS.

It is possible to use literature to teach English? What activities would you like to do in your future as a teacher? Why? What population? What materials?

Literature is one of the most important aspects when teaching English, it allows students and teachers have a preconception about tales, plays, stories and poems, especially those that are considered to have value as art and not just entertainment, those that allow us to develop as much as possible the target language during the teaching–learning process. As a future teacher, I would like to implement several activities with my students, but especially “Drama” because it allows students to acquire linguistic and non-linguistic competences not only for their teaching-learning process but also for their future professional field.

Drama is a prose or verse composition that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action favoring learners’ grammar and pronunciation. It should not be regarded as merely a fun activity or role play for filling the last ten minutes of a class, but it should be regarded as a language learning approach itself. The use of “Drama” is unusual at school or at the universities, not all teachers feel ease with employing it in the classroom because of the time and space, besides, because teachers do not feel sure by using  the methods they have not been trained before for the student’s language acquisition or improvement.

Similarly “Drama” allows to find a systematic approach to education where students use their creativity at the same time that they linguistic competences such as; lexicon, grammar, phonetics, semantics, as well as voice management, body language and non-linguistic skills that help them to increase the development of the oral competence when performing, as well as writing skill when creating the script.

By: Leney Xiomara Ortiz Calderon