Teaching literary texts: case of first-year (lmd) students at the university of tlemcen

Abstract

The present work aims at exposing the importance of teaching literary texts to firstyear EFL students at the University of Tlemcen. The focus of the study is to investigate and reflect upon the impact of literature teaching in the Algerian EFL context, the responses of the students towards the literary texts and teachers’ strategies used in their classes. To reveal the students’ responses, qualitative and quantitative investigations of the data gathered through a questionnaire, interviews and classroom observation were compared and analysed.