LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Using Poems of Jibanananda Das and Rabindranath Tagore in the Language Classrooms of Bangladesh

Tazin Ahmed, M.A. in English
Sheikh Mehedi Hasan, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

This paper underscores how the use of literature in a language classroom makes language learning easier and more entertaining. It focuses on the implications of using English literature for teaching English language and explores its advantages as well as challenges that both the language teacher and learners may come across. The paper specially shows how the areas of language learning can benefit when a literary text is used in a language classroom.

For classroom practice two English translated poems from Bengali origin are selected as texts for teaching the first-year university students English. The paper finally illustrates how a culturally common text that the learners already know in their mother tongue can enhance their linguistic skills mainly at a tertiary level.

Introduction

First, we will focus on how literature can be mingled with language in the language classes in order to make the language acquisition easy in Bangladeshi context. The best way to aid the students in learning a language is to provide them with materials that they find enjoyable. Nothing can be more interesting than literary materials, which have stories and characters that the students can relate to their lives. In fact, “a good choice would be any text that encourages or invites interaction with the world of ideas, a text that ‘affirms, confirms, and expands the indispensable human capacity to read the real world.’” (McRae, 1991:126 in Ainy, 2008).

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Tazin Ahmed, M.A. in English
Lecturer in English
South East University
House #64 B, Road#18 Block # B, Banani Model Town
Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh
tazin.ahmed.chowdhury@gmail.com
tain09_ahmed@yahoo.com

Sheikh Mehedi Hasan, Ph.D. Scholar and English Language Teacher
The English and Foreign Languages University
Hyderabad-500605
Andhra Pradesh
India
mehedi_08@hotmail.com
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