RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN “LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE” and “ LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING”
Relationship between language and literature can’t be separated. To make literature based on the language. Therefore language is very important. Without we understand the language we can’t make literature. And to read the English literature we should understand the language, socio-culture background. So, learning language should not be separated from learning the pattern and values of the culture of which it is a part.
Literature should be part of curriculum for foreign language teaching. It will can to increase all language skills because literature presents language that illustrates a particular dialect which is embedded within a social context. As such, literature is deal developing an awareness of language use. Furthermore, literature can foster an overall increase in leading proficiency, increase their motivation to interact with the text, increase their understanding of that culture and perhaps spur their own imaginative writing.
Literature does have a place in the English as a foreign Language Curriculum because literature is an ideal vehicle for illustrating language use and for introducing cultural assumption.
Literature, therefore, should be taught when the student is advanced and his control of language, and in his understanding of the culture and literature. It is the teacher’s responsibility to find away to prepare the student to understand the experience a particular piece of literature. The foreign language teacher should always remember that even when a student does not yet express himself fluently either in writing and speaking, he is still frequently able to comprehend and contribute to a discussion of a piece of literature. He has read and discussed and studied poem, plays, novels or short stories in his own language, and he is familiar with the elements and form of literature written and his native language.