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DEVELOPMENTSeries Editors:Marion Williams and Tony Wright  \n## Literature and Language Teaching\n\n## CAMBRIDGE TEACHER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENTSeries Editors:Marion Williams and Tony Wright\n\nThis series is designed for all those involved in language teacher training and development:teachers in training,trainers,directors of studies,advisers,teachers of in-service courses andseminars.Its aim is to provide a comprehensive,organised and authoritative resource forlanguage teacher training and development.  \nTeach English-A training course for teachers  \nby Adrian Doff  \nTraining Foreign Language Teachers-A reflective approach  \nby Michael J.Wallace  \nLiterature and Language Teaching-A guide for teachers and trainers*by Gillian Lazar  \nClassroom Observation Tasks-A resource book for language teachers and trainers*by Ruth Wajnryb  \nTasks for Language Teachers-A resource book for training and development*by Martin Parrott  \nEnglish for the Teacher-A language development course*by Mary Spratt  \nTeaching Children English-A training course for teachers of English to children*by David Vale with Anne Feunten  \nA Course in Language Teaching-Practice and theoryby Penny Ur  \nLooking at Language Classrooms-A teacher development video package  \nAbout Language-Tasks for teachers of English  \nby Scott Thormbury  \nAction Research for Language Teachers  \nby Michael J.Wallace  \nMentor Courses-A resource book for trainer-trainersby Angi Malderez and Caroline Bodóczky  \nAlive to Language-Perspectives on language awareness for English language teachersby Valerie Amdt,Paul Harvey and John Nuttall  \nTeachers in Action-Tasks for in-service language teacher education and developmentby Peter James  \n## Advising and Supporting Teachers\n\nby Mick Randall and Barbara Thornton  \n*Original Series Editors:Ruth Gairns and Marion Williams  \n## Literature andLanguage Teaching\n\nA guide for teachers and trainers  \nGillian Lazar  \nCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS  \nCambridge,New York,Melbourne,Madrid,Cape Town,Singapore,São Paulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo  \nCambridge University PressThe Edinburgh Building,Cambridge CB28RU,UK  \nwww.cambridge.org  \nInformation on this title:www.cambridge.org/9780521406512  \nCambridge University Press 1993  \nThis publication is in copyright.Subject to statutory exceptionand to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements,no reproduction of any part may take place without the writtenpermission of Cambridge University Press.  \nFirst published 1993  \n19th printing 2009  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom at the University Press,Cambridge  \nA catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloguing in Publication dataLazar,Gillian.  \nLiterature and language teaching:a guide for teachers andtrainers/Gillian Lazar.  \np.  cm.-(Cambridge teacher training and development)Includes bibliographical references.  \nISBN 978-0-521-40651-2(pb)  \n1.Literature-Study and teaching(Elementary)I.Title.  \nII.Series  \nLB1575.L34199292-8942  \n372.6'4044-dc20 CIP  \nISBN 978-0-521-40651-2 Paperback  \nCambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence oraccuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to inthis publication,and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is,or will remain,accurate or appropriate.Information regarding prices,traveltimetables and other factual information given in this work are correct atthe time of first printing but Cambridge University Press does not guaranteethe accuracy of such information thereafter.  \nThanks  \npage viii  \nix  \nAcknowledgements  \nxii  \n### Introduction\n\n1 Using literature in the language classroom:The issues  \n1  \n1.1 What is literature?  \n15  \n#### 1.2 What is distinctive about the language of literature?\n\n8  \n1.3 The reader and the text  \n1.4 Literary competence and the language classroom  \n11  \n#### 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