Abstract
Teaching and learning of a language couldn’t be performed separately without understanding the culture and the custom of the language under study. Therefore, in English language teaching through literature at secondary school cultural values and/or impacts of culture should be clearly stated by the language teachers to their students since the cultural issues retain a direct relationship to determine the meaning of words uttered and written by speakers of the language. Literature properly exposes students to complex themes and afresh, unexpected uses of standard language. A good novel or short story can gently take the students to foreign countries and fantastic worlds. A play or a poem can bring up certain dilemmas and dynamic emotional responses. This paper analyses literary texts incorporated in students’ textbook, incorporate researcher teaching English language experience and look out the curriculum objectives for the grade level. In the Ethiopian context, intercultural understanding has got little attention; communicative competence and linguistic competency gain relatively prioritized. If institutions and concerned bodies are looking for better learners who are well skilled with the target language; they have to properly incorporate contents which focus on enhancing trainees’ awareness and use suitable language teaching methods for better implementation. Keywords: Literary text, English language teaching, Short story DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/82-01 Publication date: October 31 st 2021
Highlights
Ethiopia is the country that is located in the horn of Africa with 1.12 million square kilometer space and having around 110 million people (Worldometer)
Education in Ethiopia had been dominated by the Ethiopian Orthodox church for many centuries, and modern education was introduced to Ethiopia nearly a century ago
Among the foreign languages such as French, Italy, and English which were taking part in the education system of Ethiopia in previous time only English language has been retained till in the education system and it has got great consideration since the English language is very important for the economic development of the country
Summary
Ethiopia is the country that is located in the horn of Africa with 1.12 million square kilometer space and having around 110 million people (Worldometer). In teaching English language through literature at secondary school the primary focus is on developing the basic language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) and language areas (grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation) of the learners through using literature which includes contents that let students learn the target points inseparably; at this time the teacher should be aware of the cultural features which exist in the literary texts because the culture is a center to understand the meaning of the literary text.
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