Using English Novel to Teach English Language in Secondary Schools: A Theoretical Perspective Study

Book excerpt: Abstract The desirability and need for English novel in secondary school classes appears obvious. There is a significant distinction between the primary elements of language; listening and speaking, and the secondary skills; reading and speaking. Most crucially foreign students differ from native speaking children with whom the often identified, because they have already accomplished thSyntaxe second stage in their own language. It seems safe enough to assert that English novel would make a valuable transitional material. English novel gives evidence of the widest variety of syntax, the richest variations of vocabulary discrimination. It provides examples of the language employed at its most effective, subtle, and suggestive. As English novel sets the potential of the English language it serves as encouragement, guide, target to the presently limited linguistic achievement of the foreign student.