International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (IJTSRD) Volume 4 Issue 2, February 2020 Available Online: www.ijtsrd.com e-ISSN: 2456 – 6470 @ IJTSRD | Unique Paper ID – IJTSRD30244 | Volume – 4 | Issue – 2 | January-February 2020 Page 1030 Using Literature in Teaching English as a Second Language: A Case Study of Arda College Dr. Gulnaz Fatma 1 , Shama Al Ajam 2 1 Language Instructor, 2 Graduare Student-English Language and Literature, 1,2 jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia ABSTRACT English language teaching is becoming more popular throughout the world since English language got the place of a global language. Teaching English as a second language would be more interesting and easy if it is taught through the local colors of understanding. Literature is the best source to make language learning easy and fascinating. For the beginners of English language learner, there are large numbers of stories which can be taught in classrooms. Short stories, specifically children stories, short poems and novellas can be good source to arise interest among learners. Literary texts provide chance to come across different type of emotions, expressions and sentence structures. Literary language enables learners to differentiate between formal and informal language. Literary text can be taught through audios or by showing movies based on literary work with English subtitles which not only will improve their pronunciation and but also will help to improve their listening for English language. Reading literary text during language learning builds a rich vocabulary for a new learner. Learning language through literature also help the learner to know other cultures very closely, because literature of different languages provide with the platform of various cultural values, rules and regulations, and prepare the mind of readers to accept the differences between cultures and respect the values of others. This research will help the teachers and students as well which would be mainly focused over the students of English department only. This is an objective research; a survey among the students would be done by the researcher itself, in which short text of different genres of literature would be given to be taught during language learning classes. The data of the research would be calculated by SPSS. KEYWORDS: English, Language, Literature, Culture, Learning, English as Second Language, Saudi Arabia How to cite this paper: Dr. Gulnaz Fatma | Shama Al Ajam "Using Literature in Teaching English as a Second Language: A Case Study of Arda College" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-2, February 2020, pp.1030-1034, URL: www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30244.pdf Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by /4.0) INRODUCTION Second language learning can be made easy and enthusiastic by adding some creative things in it as study material is the most important thing which teachers are supposed to prepare before entering the classrooms. It is very challenging job to select the study material for the beginners, so that it can make the learning process easier and confident. As this research is centered on literature, as a source of learning English language, a major part of discussion will be focused on different genres of literature. Reading, writing listening are the basic skill to learn English, all these skills can be learned and understand by the use of literature. Literature of a particular language has always had a cultural affect on it, while cultural knowledge and social understanding are not the things which can be avoided during language learning. Literature of a particular language can be studied for many purposes in which cultural knowledge comes on the top which provides a lot of knowledge to the learner of that particular language. Studying literature during language learning also helps the students to enhance their creative thinking skill. Background of the Research: It is seen that there is a fashion nowadays to learn English and most of the students from non English countries are heading toward English speaking countries to learn the language thoroughly by being in the touch of native speakers. This paper emphasizes on including literature in language learning courses so that English language learners can understand the language from the prospective of their native speaker instead of learning the basic dialogues added in the curriculum. In this competitive age of education it comes on the institution to design a course which can give a comprehensive knowledge to the students. Statement of problem: Learning a second language through books leaves a empty place in understanding the language acutely until and unless learner is unaware about the culture, tradition, and historical background of the people of that particular language. Although movies, music, and social media now a day’s fulfilling this emptiness profoundly yet in classrooms its difficult and inappropriate to play movies specially in language learning classes, so now the question arises how a IJTSRD30244