ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
The BBC TeachingEnglish team has published an article titled “Get lit up: literature as a teacher’s best friend”.
BBC TeachingEnglish team team says, “Literature. Quite a divisive word, that. Throw it through an open window into a room full of language teachers and most will dive behind furniture, fingers in their ears and looks of horror on their faces.
A few, possibly, will greet its arrival amongst them with a squeak of delight and start playing with it like a favourite pet.
A bit of an exaggeration? Not really. Most teachers of English as a foreign language will identify fairly readily with one group or the other, with those who would welcome the chance to use literature in the classroom and those who wouldn’t even think about it”.