{"id":4180,"date":"2013-09-28T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T10:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eltweekly.com\/elt-newsletter\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2013-09-28T10:20:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T10:20:47","slug":"vol-5-issue-35-article-get-lit-up-literature-as-a-teachers-best-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltweekly.humbeestudio.xyz\/?p=4180","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 5 Issue 35 \u2013 Article: Get lit up: literature as a teacher&#8217;s best friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"color: #ff0000; text-align: center;\"><strong><strong><strong><strong><strong>ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 |\u00a0<strong>ISSN 0975-3036<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The BBC TeachingEnglish team has published an article titled &#8220;Get lit up: literature as a teacher&#8217;s best friend&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>BBC TeachingEnglish team \u00a0team says, &#8220;Literature. Quite a divisive word, that. Throw it through an open window into a room full of\u00a0language teachers and most will dive behind furniture, fingers in their ears and looks of horror on their faces.<\/p>\n<p>A few, possibly, will greet its arrival amongst them with a squeak of delight and start playing with it like a favourite pet.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of an exaggeration?\u00a0Not really.\u00a0Most teachers of English as a foreign language will identify fairly readily with one group or the other, with those who would welcome the chance to use literature in the classroom and those who wouldn\u2019t even think about it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachingenglish.org.uk\/articles\/get-lit-literature-a-teachers-best-friend\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read full article<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#35 | September 30, 2013 |\u00a0ISSN 0975-3036 The BBC TeachingEnglish team has published an article titled &#8220;Get lit up: literature as a teacher&#8217;s best friend&#8221;. 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