The Relevance of Teaching Grammar and Literature in Foreign Language Teaching.

The twenty first century has brought along significant changes in society, in thinking, in the way people communicate and of course, in teaching. Students have access to an enormously large number of pieces of information, thus classes have to be interesting, appealing, challenging and informational. Knowing a foreign language is a must and being able to communicate in one's mother tongue is a given. This is why teachers of languages are sometimes confronted with the teaching material; they ask themselves what exactly to teach, grammar or literature? Both? But when and how? In what follows I will try to highlight some of the main characteristics, both strong points and downsides, of teaching grammar and literature. I will focus especially on EFL students, but will make frequent reference to English native speakers as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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