Investigating Students Perceptions towards Teaching Literature.

Abstract

Teaching literature in higher education is seen as way to practice knowledge to enhance one's cognitive ,linguistic and methodological skills .From this perspective , this study attempts to investigate License student perceptions towards learning literature and the difficulties that face them in learning it .It was conducted at the English department of Ibn khaldoun university. To test our assumptions, we collected data using questionnaire with whom and interview with whom .Therefore ,the sample consists of thirty (30) students and two (2) teachers of literature.The finding of the study indicates that students hold mixed feelings towards literature i .e positive and negative ,yet it should be noted that the majority of them holds a negative stance towards literature course .The study has also shown that a great number of the students have displayed their dissatisfaction with the way literature is being instructed .