Abstract:
The present English is considered as the most dominant language and teaching English is
being given the supreme priority in every discipline all over the globe. To cope
with this global trend, most of the private universities in Bangladesh offer English
foundation Course (EFC) to the students of different disciplines with a view to
enhancing their communicative skills in English language. However, the syllabus of
EFC varies in different universities. Most of the universities follow a grammatical
syllabus where literature components are avoided considering them useless in
language teaching and learning. On the other hand, in some of these universities,
literature is used in the classes of EFC. The reason behind integrating literature
components in the classes is that literature can make a language class interactive and
an interactive class can obviously improve communicative competence. Many
researchers have already explored "how" literature should be used in teaching English
language. However, no attempt has yet been taken to establish the efficacy of the
teaching English language by using literature components. So, I have decided to
conduct a descriptive research to establish the effectiveness of teaching English
through literature by describing the existing phenomena of the teaching of English in
EFC.
Description:
This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language Teaching of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
