Introduction to literature for English Language Education

Literature basically belongs to the nature of teaching. Henceforth, teaching literature has come up to the field of education. Teaching literature can be said as a reflection of learning the world through the literary work. It is seen that teaching literature aims to make students humanized. This also develops the students’ awareness of how literature can function as discourse—, whose text— is also an access to the knowledge of world both in fiction and in reality. This also belongs to the context of teaching the work of art reflected in text. Here, students can share the benefits or the use of literary work—so called—utile, as well as the pleasure—so called—dulce—so that students share or take a good advantage of knowing and being human who sometimes lives in the complicated world