Incorporating and Combining Technology and Literature into Language Teaching to Enhance Creativity

Abstract

Using authentic materials in language teaching is a means of providing students with real input which motivates learners better to learn a language. Literature of the language which is taught is the primary authentic material of the language. Although there have been approaches to use literature in teaching language, teachers have some reservations about incorporating literature in their curricula due to scarcity of training in this area and negative perceptions about selecting appropriate literary texts which match the levels and interests of the students. Also, when the research in this field is reviewed, it was found out that there was a scarcity of work which suggested combining the use of literature through technology. In order to fill this gap, this study aimed to present rationale behind incorporating literature into teaching a language and how it could be used creatively through combining it with technology to reduce or to eliminate the reservations. To this end, some suggestions are made such as using infographics, Twitter, blogs, vlogs and dictation tools along with literary texts.

Keywords

• Language teaching
• literature
• technology
• creativity