文學在語言教室之正辯

Refuting the Skeptics: The Argument for Literature in the Language Classroom

文學作品向未蒙英語教師青睞。今日之教育者，縱有數十種研究學理之鼓舞，對文學作品之應用於語文教室，卻仍裹足不前。本文先探討反對使用文學作品於語言教室之一些議論，次對文學作品之應用於英語為外文的教室作正面辯論。

Literary works of ficition have fallen from favor with many modem teachers of English as a Foreign Language. Today's educators, spurred on by scores of theorists armed with reams of research, generally frpwn upon any suggested use of literature in the language acquisition classroom. This writing will examine some of the claims against the use of literature as a language teaching tool, and offer arguments which cast a more favorable light on the use of creative fiction in the EFL classroon.