Read the following texts: “The theories in language teaching-learning have been changed over time due to the influence of linguistic

Read the following texts:

“The theories in language teaching-learning have been changed over time due to the influence of linguistic, psychological, educational and political perspectives derived from “a mixture of assertion, theory, observation and experiment” (Hall & Cook, 2012, p. 272). Developing new methods and techniques is a challenging task for foreign language teachers. […] Linguists opine that there is an intimate relationship between language and literature (Violetta-Irene, 2015). According to Brumfit and Ronald (1986), literature is ‘an ally of language’. Moreover, Maley (1989) identified some of the causes for recognizing literature as a forceful resource in the way of learning language: universality, non-triviality, personal relevance, variety, interest, economy and suggestive power, ambiguity etc.”

​Success is counted sweetest – Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne’er succeed.

To comprehend a nectar

Requires sorest need.

Imagine you have just finished college and started working as a teacher. In order to innovate in class, you brought literature to work some topics of the English language with your students.Taking the text and the poem into account, analyze the following statements.

I. Working with literature may help the student not only with the structures of the English language, but also with any other social matters.

II. When using this poem in class you could show your students that it is possible to replace “who” by “which” without changing the meaning.

III. It is possible to work with the English language through literature due to their intimate relationship.

IV. Relative clauses is one of the grammar topics brought up by this poem, such as the use of “who”, which is similar to “that” and can be replaced in some situations without changing the meaning of the sentence.

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