This paper aims at emphasizing the use of literature as a popular technique for teaching both basic language skills (i.e. reading, writing, listening and speaking) and language areas (i.e. vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation) in our times. Reasons for using literary texts in foreign language classroom and main criteria for selecting suitable literary texts in foreign language classes are stre...

without any doubt, balance is considered as one of the most significant criticism issues which evaluates similarities among different texts so that it can find to a better understanding and consequently the problems can be solved. thus, it stands in a top position in literary criticism. regarding this significance, this study is dedicated to study balance between al-buhturi and al-sharif al-mor...

The purpose of this study was to analyze textual elaboration as a modification option for literary texts in an intermediate Spanish language course. This study suggests that literary texts might obtain a more predominant place in second language instruction, especially for readers with lower levels of language proficiency, if learners were supplied with additional tools to facilitate comprehens...

This article explores the ways and activities designed on the Whole Language Approach to foster learners’ integrated language skills and their ability to read and appreciate great English literary works. Based on the major principles of Whole Language instruction, the course syllabus requires that learners read and write on massive amount of English literary works to achieve fluency in reading ...

this paper aims at investigating the acquisition of italian complex predicates by native speakers of persian. complex predication is not as pervasive a phenomenon in italian as it is in persian. yet italian native speakers use complex predicates productively; spontaneous data show that persian learners of italian seem to be perfectly aware of italian complex predicates and use this familiar fea...

For the multilingual author, switching between two or more languages is not an arbitrary act, nor is it simply an attempt to mimic the speech of his or her community; code-switching results from a conscious decision to create a desired effect and to promote the validity of the author’s heritage language. This article looks at code-switching in literary texts between Spanish and English, English...

This study aims to present an accessible model of some frequent nonfinite adverbial types occurring in English prose fiction. As its main syntactic argument, it recognizes that these adverbials are mostly elliptical in that there are some dependent-clause markers one can assume to be implicit when supplying those elements back into the clause complex. Some comments are provided at the end on th...

comparative literature is defined as an empiric disciplinewithin literary studies that focuses on the comparison between a literature andother literature(s) or other forms of human expression. nowadays, due to theclash between the two trends existing in the discipline -the historical and thetheoretical, comparative literature is immersed in a process of theoretical andpractical renewal that foc...