Enhancing Students’ Figurative Competence Through an Integrated-Approach to Teaching Poetry

Abstract

The presence of the figurative language in poetry is ubiquitous. Yet, students find a lot of difficulties in understanding the figurative images. Accordingly, this study endeavours to explore the effectiveness of using an integrated-approach to developing students’ FLC to teaching poetry at the department of Tlemcen. Besides, it aims at gauging teachers’ and students’ attitudes and beliefs about the importance of the figurative language to the EFL learners. To fulfil this work, researcher has tackled some tools of investigation through an in-depth analysis using different tests of the figurative processing, two questionnaires, and an interview to the teachers in charge of teaching poetry. This paper ends with some suggestions and recommendations that provide some techniques and exercises, which hope for most to bring betterment to the future of the figurative language in the EFL classes.