Learners’ views of literature in EFL education from curricular and assessment perspectives

Literature has been gaining growing attention in second language (L2)/foreign (FL) education globally. In a number of places such as Hong Kong, literature recently given greater emphasis the L2/FL curricula. This article reports part large-scale study examining learners’ views two English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) modules on literary genres incorporated EFL curriculum, namely short stories (ShS) and poems songs (PS 2347 comments collected explained their perceptions from multiple angles. Overall, participants held positive ShS module being into but only neutral PS they were mostly against these examined if unexamined, generally not interested studying them.