Teaching language through literature

 Thinking Activity

Hello Readers! 

    Welcome to my blog, here I would like to share how can we teach language through literature, of course literature can be in various form like Novel, short stories, poem, play, and movies and short video also a part of literature. Again we may have question like why teach literature for language teaching? Then it has various aspects like it can lead to an overall development of personality through role plays and other interactive activities. 

    # what sort of activities or tasks can be designed to teach language using a 'poem'

 # Design pre-tasks, while-tasks and post-tasks

• designing activities that would lead-in to the thematic concern of the poem

• design pre-activities that relates to the life of the reader

• design ‘comprehension check’ activities for while-reading design reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary activities for post-teaching

So, through this using Review games, we can teach comprehension, grammar,and vocabulary activities that's is useful in post-teaching task. So,through this game students can develop their vocabulary as well as they can development their language grasps also.

  We can also use this types of blanks to learn language through poetry. 

# what sort of activities and tasks can be designed to teach language using a film videos 

      For teaching language we can use 'film's and ' videos' because it,can present complete communicative situations combining visual and aural inputs.

The film and videos can show communicative situations in a certain context and not in isolation and also can be especially useful for slower learners since paralinguistic features present can augment aural cues.

    Now, due to technologies, videos now can be edited and other 'tricks' performed, since they are generally interesting, can be motivational for language learning. 

      It's also offers a large variety of language learning situations, e.g.films, plays, quizzes, animations, news etc. However, in language learning situation, all such viewing should be structured by tasks. 

# what sort of activities and tasks can be designed to teach language using a 'novel'

    

  Novel is a very effective way of building vocabulary and developing reading comprehension skills to learn language. 

  We can also use  use strip cartoon to novelistic actions like.. 

Showing relationships within the text	can be done through comparing cohesive devices can be done through comparing the relationships between characters (family charts) comparing sense activities; e.g. what sense-impressions do you associate with each place : in teaching novels of class difference, or city-village conflict, or movement within the same space
Building up a labelled map of journeys in the story	especially if the story involves a lot of travelling (very common in novels)
Building up a time-chart of the action	what is the period of the novelistic action?
Building up research resources	asking the students to consult critics and what they say and then put them up on the class notice board for sharing
Building up a strip cartoon of the novelistic action	You could do this if you are good at drawing or you may ask a dedicated colleague or friend to do this for you
Ask your students to play the role of novel characters and then interview them about their intentions and decisions	Tell the students the basic outline of the story and ask them to assume roles; this could be very interesting
Writing a letter to the novelist or the publisher	Expressing opinions, agreements and disagreements
Recitation	asking students to read aloud passages assuming the role of the characters
Asking students to write an advertisement	developing creative skills since the students have to think about which points to highlight and how to design the ad.
Theme poems of "part of books	Create a poem by using 4 or 5 sentences from one page and then ask the students to interpret it