The use of literary texts in efl classroom

It is a fact that language teaching in Turkey is getting more and more important. Therefore, this thesis has been prepared to bring a new perspective on the subject and contribute to the purpose of current language teaching methods in order to reveal the contribution of literary texts in language teaching.Apart from the methods used in the current language teaching so far, this thesis has been based on the ?Question of whether we can achieve a higher success and motivation in teaching a foreign language through literary texts?. First of all, this approach and perspective has enabled to examine all the traditional methods observing a wide field of research. Therefore, in the first chapter, various methods applied up to now have been addressed in a general approach.In the second chapter, the relationship between literature and language, development of language and literature in Turkey, activities such as reading, comprehension, writing in language classes, and their historical development as well in order to give relationship between literature-language thoroughly have been addressed.In the third, and the following chapters, however, the issue of what kind of literary texts has been evaluated in the context of literary genres used in language teaching in association with the language. As the emphasis has been put on the place of literature in language teaching, its importance, and benefits, linguistic, methodological, and incentive causes and factors of the literary texts have been explained. In the next chapters, the approaches such as inclusion of literary texts into process, the way of teaching literary text, and application on a sample of course; the general approach to the results of all these processes and evaluations have been discussed. Finally, a questionnaire prepared in the light of questions which would serve best for the purpose in order to see and embody theoretical value for the application process has been added. The evaluations of the survey results will be another factor to show that the study will serve how much for the purpose of our study is hoped.Key Words: Literature, Literary Texts, Foreign Language Teaching.