TY - JOUR ID - 14029 TI - Book Review: "Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom" JO - Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances JA - JALDA LA - en SN - 2820-8986 AU - Hosseini Anhari, Mostafa AD - MA in TEFL, Department of English, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran Y1 - 2020 PY - 2020 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 247 EP - 249 KW - Book Review KW - Mostafa Hosseini KW - Literature KW - Language Learning KW - EFL Classroom KW - Saito DO - 10.22049/jalda.2020.26811.1170 N2 - Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroomconsists of nineteenchapters. The chapters of the book have been arranged into two parts: Part I, current issues and suggestions for new approaches (Chapters 1-6) and Part II, empirical and case studies (Chapters 7-19). The book takes multiple approaches to examine how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices inan EFLclassroom including 1) the use of extensive and close reading 2) narrative inquiry 3) translation and pedagogical stylistics, and 4)the evaluation of successful foreign language learners. It is worth mentioning that the increasing role of non-canonical English literary textssuch as post-modernist texts, simplified texts and pop song lyrics isthe focus of several chapters.The collection may be considered as unique in the sense that many chapters, either directly or indirectly, target the Japanese EFL classroom. In fact, 14 chapters out of 19 have been written by Japanese authors.This review provides a chapter-by-chapter account of the book. UR - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_14029.html L1 - http://jalda.azaruniv.ac.ir/article_14029_8dd9f56c5907f4a8532741c98e437ee1.pdf ER -