The paper focuses on the value of teaching literature to technical students so as to make them proficient in communication skills. Beginning with the emphasis on interdependence of language and literature, it channelizes its way to the use of native literature in the content-based foreign language instruction. Even the study is well supported by an exhaustive questionnaire and a graph to authenticate the use of literature in language learning process. Communication skills do play an important role in deciding one’s career graph; hence possessing effective communication skills is the need of the hour. Acquiring these skills is dependent on the inclusion of literary forms and native literature too. Literary genres can be effectively used to teach a foreign language like English. The purpose of this paper is to find out the essentialities of means and modes which are required to improve the communication skills of engineers.

The primary function of language is undoubtedly to facilitate interaction among people who may or may not come from different cultural backgrounds. According to Langer, literature allows students to reflect on their lives, learning and language (Shang, 2006). Literature can open “horizons of possibility, allowing students to question, interpret, connect and explore”. In other words, language and literature cannot be separated. Teaching language in isolation from literature will not move students towards mastery of the four language skills. According to Fitzgerland, literature can be the vehicle to improve student’s overall language skills.

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