ألإسلـوبية واكتساب اللغـة من خـلال الآدب

Abstract

Since 2005, the researcher has been teaching English literature in the English Department of the College of Languages at the University of Sulaimani. The researcher has always faced problems with the students especially in the exams because their style of writing is very poor and they make lots of grammatical mistakes. The students, at the department of English Language, study English literature for four years but they cannot get benefit from it to increase their knowledge in English language because they do not know that one of the purposes behind studying literature is to help them improve their language skills and they do not know how to use literature to achieve this aim. The purpose of the paper is to teach students how to acquire language through a systematic study of the linguistic elements in the literary texts and how language can be employed to achieve various goals. To accomplish the aims of the study, students are introduced to stylistic analysis since stylistics is the study of the language of literature. The research is based on a questionnaire carried out in the English Department of the School of Languages at the University of Sulaimani and the fourth year students participated in it. The students were asked only two questions related to the aims of the research. They were asked whether they got benefit from literature to improve their language skills or not and whether language learners should study literature or not. The paper is apparently divided into two parts. In the first part, the answers of the students are examined to find out the students’ views regarding acquiring language through literature and the necessity of spending a long time reading and studying literary texts for foreign learners of English. The second segment is devoted to teaching students how to acquire language through studying literature and how to use language more effectively and how to make certain meanings. To achieve these goals, students are introduced to the stylistic analysis and some examples are investigated from a stylistic point of view to teach students how to acquire language through literature and how to use the same information in their daily activities.