The Role of the English Novel in Teaching English Language in Secondary School: A Revisit in EFL Arab Students Context

The current study aimed to identify the role played by the English novel in teaching English in secondary school. The study also explores how the English novel as a form of literature plays a pivotal role in promoting secondary school students’ English language proficiency and how it is also geared for the goal of generating the aesthetic part of the language that is personal response from students.

The study reveals that: One of the purposes of using literature is to help students learn to use context class to interpret unfamiliar vocabulary and to strive overall comprehension. English novel plays a pivotal role in enhancing the potential of secondary school students' holistic, balanced and integrated manner intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically and create a balanced and harmonious human being with high social standard. Moreover the study also shows the first critical decision the teacher faces is selection of the appropriate reading for a particular clues. The readings should be challenging for the students but not over whelming. The study recommends that, to use Krashen’s terminology, we need to expose the students to language at the level of i + 1[1]. This does not mean that they need to understand this does not mean that they need to understand every word that they read.