Language Acquisition Via Facets of Literature

Abstract

Language plays a pivotal role in everyday facet of human life.In general, teachers of English are always anxious with the kind of ideas and information they dispense to their students. Many ways and resources are available to acquire the language skills in this modern technological era. But the language taught and acquired through literature has its own tremendous outcome. Nowadays literature is one of the most demanding classification of material for English class. It is affirmed that teaching language through literature stirs up effective language learning. Language through literature extends linguistic knowledge, facilitates intelligence, stimulates creativity, improves cultural awareness and develops psycholinguistic aspects. Learning the language through literature makes expressing opinion easy, develops reading skills and strategies and moreover increases fluency and proficiency. Experiencing the language through literature induces to dream in the world of future and provides life time experience and persuades the learners to identify themselves in different characters. This facilitates language learning in an unconventional environment and motivates for further acquisition. Learning of a language allocates with social understanding and culture. Moreover, Literature reveals one’s personality and culture on the basis of the language. It eases an opportunity to unlock the potential of the learners and helps them to have a different view and collective opinion about different writers and their works. Reading different literary works develop the growth of vocabulary and it also helps to learn new words and expressions. Literature enhances all language skills and it widens to gain more prowess on linguistics. This paper aims to promote the language through literature and acquiring the skills for the same.