A COMMUNICATIVE VIEW TO TEACHING ENGLISH LITERARUREAT THE ALGERIAN UNIVERSITY

From the findings of a questionnaire administered in two algerian universities, and interviewswith teachers and students from several algerian universities, it has been deduced that most ofteachers either do not like or discard teaching literature, arguing that the subject is too difficult. also,students claim a lot and are unsatisfied with what they have learnt throughout years studying literature.eventually, after close investigation, we found out that the problem resides in the methods and modalsof teaching used by teachers and not the content of the subject per se. this article explores the mostprominent literature teaching approaches and methods and suggests a literature teaching modal basedon a communicative perspective in consistent with the national needs of the algerian students, hopingto help literature teachers adjust and improve their teaching performance.