KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA MINISTRY OF HIGH EDUCATION ALBAHA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES Using Literature to Develop Secondary-School EFL Students ' Writing Skills in Alqunfadah M. A. project submitted to the department of foreign languages in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the master 's degree in Applied Linguistics Presented by Abdullah Harrab Ali Alessi 434014971 Under the supervision of Dr. Mamdooh Associate professor of linguistics
didactics of literary education. They will create theoretical and practical basis for the didactic analysis of the curriculum. They will familiarize with the matters of the interpretative analysis of texts during the preparatory phase of teaching and with selected possibilities of their didactic applications. 1. Characteristics of didactics of literary education as a science discipline. Course related literature. 2. Basic factors of teaching literature, process of reception, literary communication. Functional
This paper deals with experimenting the use of Literature in English Language teaching in Engineering colleges. Literature sets out the potential of language and serves as a means of enhancing one’s competence through confidence. It can also help one hone one’s language skills by extending linguistic knowledge through evidence of extensive and subtle vocabulary usage and a complex and exact syntax. It is rightly said that Literature is a “valuable transitional material”. While language focuses
Focusing on taste, which was at core of a nexus of politeness, a point on which many historians of eighteenth century British culture and literature virtually converge, the role of the literary culture and the printed press in educating the general reading public in the matters of taste, refinement and informing the character is explored. Moreover, such pillars of the public sphere as the Tatler and the Spectator increasingly sought to educate the emergent bourgeois classes in the matters of refined
This paper discusses the impact of translation in all walks of life. An individual feels an urge in learning different languages for some specific purposes. The need and importance of translation is felt increasing day by day. Besides enlightening it proved to awaken India to become conscious of their existence and knit India together as a nation throughout history. The best example of it can be found when Akbar set up Maktabkhana or translation bureau, which encouraged translators of Sanskrit, Turkish
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experience between the author and readers or hearers. It looks at the structure of the text, development of plot, the role of the language are the main concern in this method. This method includes textual criticism, literary criticism, rhetorical criticism, narrative criticism, genre studies, and canonical criticism. 4.1. Textual Criticism Textual criticism is a method, which tries to re-establish the original text of an ancient document. None of the original manuscripts, or autographs, of any
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