Teaching English Literature at Sudanese Secondary Schools

Abstract

This study aims to probe the methods, techniques and the approaches that English language teachers used at Sudanese secondary school to teach literature; to how they should approach it. It investigates how teachers approach literature teaching, what they think about teaching literature, and what are the difficulties that they face when teaching. An interview for secondary school teachers and questionnaire for secondary school students were adopted as an instrumentation in Kosti, Rabak Elgazeera Aaba and Khartoum. The interview was analysed using Context Analysis whereas the questionnaire was analyzed using (SPSS) the statistical Package for Social Science. Teachers do not used any approach in teaching literature at Sudanese secondary schools. Teachers own way of teaching literature doesn’t enable them to achieve the objectives of teaching it. Lack of training and specialization result in disastrous result in teaching literature at Sudanese secondary schools.