Raising EFL Learners’ Interest towards Studying Literature via the use of Audio-Visual Aids

Abstract

The purpose of the present study is to scrutinize EFL students and teachers’ views and attitudes towards the implementation of the audio-visual devices in literature classes. Moreover, the research tries to detect the efficacy and advantages of such integration. More than that, this study sheds the light on the appropriate types of audio-visual aids to be used in teaching literature. It thereby hypothesizes that the integration of audio-visual aids in teaching/learning literature would increase the students’ interest in learning it. The descriptive method is adopted, based on a quantitative-qualitative design in order to achieve the aforenamed aims. Consequently, two data collection tools, a students’ questionnaire and a teachers’ interview, were used. The questionnaire has been administered during the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018. The interviews took place from 17th to 27th May 2018 during the period of exams. The sample of the study is composed of 58 Master one students out of 68 and ten (10) teachers of literature at the Department of English, University of 8 Mai 1945, Guelma, Algeria. The derived results revealed a positive relationship between the two research variables, which confirms the hypothesis set at the beginning of the research. They showed that the use of audio-visual aids is beneficial for the learning of literature.