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Discuss three main aims of teaching literature

      

Discuss three main aims of teaching literature

  

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• Literature is included in the curriculum so that it can help in
transmission of knowledge. Literature does not concentrate on a particular area of knowledge as for example does Chemistry or History. Literature is concerned with all aspects of man
and the universe in their entirety. There are facts that file actually encountered
and explained in the work of literature, and there are those facts which the
reader is impelled to discover from other sources in order to understand particular
situations or problems that occur i. n literature.

• Literature is included in the curriculum so that it can help develop an individual
The whole education process is a process of development in the individual.
The principal faculties to be trained are the sensory, the intellectual, the
affective (the feelings) the social and the religious sense. For each of these,
literature can provide suitable materials and encouragement

• Literature is included in the curriculum so that it can help in the
acquisition of skills. Literature helps to train students in the skill of reading, listening, speaking and writing A student listens to literature read aloud by the teacher or fellow students and to the discussions that literature stimulates in class. He speaks when he acts in plays, when he reads poems and when he takes part in discussions. Literature also provides plenty interesting opportunities for writing.

NatalieR answered the question on June 13, 2022 at 10:20


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