Sahila Guliyeva

Key words: fiction, literary text, oral speech skills, communicative competence

Sahila Ali Guliyeva

THE ROLE OF USING FICTION IN ENGLISH CLASSES

Summary. Oral speech skills in language learners develop as a result of formation of reading culture and satisfaction of information literacy. Reading is such a skill that the need for it increases as we absorb information. Reading original fiction in English helps to form oral speech, enriches the vocabulary, gets to know the culture and literature of the country of the language being studied, develops analytical thinking, helps to become a part of the world with spiritual and aesthetic values. In the teaching of foreign languages, it is always emphasized that fiction teaches to understand the characteristics of different cultures, helps to develop personality and critical thinking, and is important in improving communication and language skills. The selection of literary texts for teaching a foreign language is a multi-stage process, and this issue depends on the criteria used by specialists and teachers engaged in this selection. The selection of literary texts can be made based on different criteria and for different purposes.