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Benefits of Reading Fiction On Language Development.

The document discusses the benefits of reading fiction for language development in children. It states that reading fiction helps children with interpretation, deduction, creativity, empathy, vocabulary growth, socialization, and focus. It also discusses how literary texts can be used for language learning by practicing the four skills and presenting new structures and vocabulary, and provides guidance for teachers on using literature in the classroom.

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Benefits of Reading Fiction On Language Development.

The document discusses the benefits of reading fiction for language development in children. It states that reading fiction helps children with interpretation, deduction, creativity, empathy, vocabulary growth, socialization, and focus. It also discusses how literary texts can be used for language learning by practicing the four skills and presenting new structures and vocabulary, and provides guidance for teachers on using literature in the classroom.

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Tbilisi State University

BENEFITS OF READING FICTION ON LANGUAGE


DEVELOPMENT.

Lecturer: Nino
Chikovani
Student: Nana Zazadze
Reading fiction helps children learn to
1 interpret and deduce

Why reading 2
Reading fiction helps children to be more creative

fiction is 3 Reading fiction make students more emphatic

important to 4 All reading builds vocabulary.

children's 5
Reading fiction can help our students socialize.

developement 6
Reading fiction can help students to focus
Literature as a tool
Literary texts offer a rich source of
for language learning linguistic input and can help learners
to practice the four skills - speaking,
listening, reading, and writing - in
addition to exemplifying grammatical
structures and presenting new
vocabulary.
Literature lessons can lead to public displays of
students. They can be posters, poems, stories, or
performances of plays. So for a variety of linguistic,
cultural, and personal growth reasons, literary texts
can be more motivating than the referential ones
often used in classrooms.
I do believe something very
magical happens when you read
a good book
J.K Rowling
Literary Text
Short stories Plays

Poems

Song Lyrics
Novels
What are some text selection

of the linguistic difficulty

challenges to length

be faced when cultural difficulty

using literature cultural appropriacy


Difficulty of
the text and a
task
• Level 1 Simple text + low-level task
• Level 2 Simple text + more demanding
task
• Level 3 Difficult text + low-level task
• Level 4 Difficult text + more demanding
task
How can literary texts be
used?
Teachers can exploit literary texts in a large number of ways in the classroom.
Classroom work with literary works may involve pre-reading tasks, interactive
work on the text and follow up activities.
Guidence
• Minimize the extent to which the teacher disturbs students' reading.
• Draw attention to stylistic peculiarity.
• Help students to appreciate the ways that writers use language to achieve
particular effects.
• Provide frameworks for creative response.
• Invite learners to step into the shoes of the writer or invite them to
modify, extend or add to a text.
"Books open
your mind,
broaden your
mind and
strengthen you
William Feather

as nothing else
References
• https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/using-literature-introduction
• https://blog.friendscentral.org/experts-agree-kids-need-fiction-to-succeed-in-
school-and-life
THANK YOU
FOR
ATTENTION!

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