It has become increasingly necessary today for teachers and teacher trainers not only teach language, but also to develop the learners’ abilities to make them capable of using the language for a variety of communicative purposes. English teaching today has evolved around the primary prominence on its feasibility as a communication skill to assist acquire jobs, promote business interests or provide diverse forms of entertainment. Nevertheless, our students encounter a lot of inconvenience in comprehending English as a language. This is so because the students appear to have the linguistic proficiency and expertise to deal with the text, but are unable to do so because they are approaching it in an inappropriate manner. Language teaching is a process and teaching English through literature has become the fashionable phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to investigate these problems and analyse the importance of literary discourse in teaching English language.

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