DEVELOPING AN INDONESIAN HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM OF ELT THROUGH LITERATURE

Abstract

Teaching English language through literature is a common practice in the countries where English is used as the first or second language. The facts show that ELT in Indonesian high schools is dominated by linguistic contents while the teachers are prepared with both linguistic and literature contents. Thus, the objective of discussing such a topic is to propose the development of an ELT through literature curriculum for high schools in Indonesia. To provide for conceptual bases, a number of ELT curriculum development references including those written by Littlewood (1981), Richards (2001) and Nation (2010) are used in this article.