The Use and Implementation of Literature in Prep School Classes

In today's world, it is impossible to think of language education and literature independently from each other. Generally speaking, students need to know about a target language's literature in order to understand and get the full domination of a language. In my B1 level classes, I adapted a method in order to instill literature background to my students. I introduce different writers from English and Irish literature such as Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, George Elliot and Jane Austen. In the introduction work, I introduce them to the writers and their era. Later on, my students work on the texts and they comprehend these writers and the topics they wrote on. In pair work, they write reviews about these novels and criticize the novels. In an example on a novel, I introduce the steps of this literature implementation into the prep classrooms. Therefore, the students fully grasp the literature and the culture of England, apart from the language mechanics. I have tried this method in my classrooms and will explain it step by step to my colleagues. Implementing literature into the curriculum of prep schools' classrooms is crucial and something that the Prep Schools is missing in the Prep Schools of Turkey.