Investigating the Techniques of Teaching English Literary Texts in Preparatory Schools
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This study aims at investigating the techniques used in teaching literary texts in secondary schools and the difficulties behind practicing these techniques that teachers encounter in teaching literature. It is hypothesized that teachers of English still use the traditional way in teaching literary texts, and female teachers use more various ways than male teachers. A questionnaire is designed to achieve the aims of the study. Finally it has been concluded that teachers of English use the traditional way of teaching and they do not use the principles of communicative method in teaching literature.
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