AUTHENTIC LITERARY TEXTS IN DEVELOPING LEARNERS’ PERCEPTION OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CULTURE AT PRE-INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Abstract

Developing learners’ perception of foreign language culture is very crucial in the context of an intercultural approach to FLT. And one of the issues to assist this process is the use of authentic literary texts.  But in the practice of FLT there is no clear understanding of the notion “authentic text”, it’s  role in FLT, moreover, there is no consent toward that when to use authentic text, at what level, and how to use. Thus, the objectives of the paper are to define the features of authentic literary texts and to determine the best solution for implementing them in a foreign language classroom.