teaching English through selected literary works

In relation to simplified literary works, Subhan (2011:79) stated that (1) there are many simplified literary works in the United Kingdom and the United States that are produced and designed both for the activity of literary appreciation and English language teaching (ELT) and (2) after reaching the intermediate level and the advanced level the students will be able to read the original version of the literary works; the basic level can be regarded as a bridge or a stepping stone to jump or climb up.

There are some examples of simplified literary works that have been claimed to belong to Children’s Classics:

1.      Treasure Island

2.      Swiss Family Robinson

3.      Secret Garden

4.      A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

5.      The Three Musketeers

6.      A Tale of Two Cities

7.      Gulliver’s Travels

8.      The Lost World

9.      King Solomon’s Mines

10.  Around the World in Eighty days

11.  A Christmas Carol

12.  The Wind in the Willows

13.  The Last of the Mohicans

14.  The Happy Prince and other stories

15.    Lorna Doone

16.  Oliver Twist

17.  The Railway Children

18.  Kidnapped

19.  A Little Princess

20.  Black Beauty

21.  Alice in Wonderland

22.  Tom Sawyer

23.  Little Women

24.  Tales from the Jungle Book

25.  The Invisible Man

26.  Aladdin & his wonderful lamp

27.  Ali Baba & the forty thieves

28.  Robin Hood

29.  King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

30.  Malaysian Tales

31.  Ghostly Tales

32.  Dracula

33.  Frankenstein

34.  The Mummy

35.  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

36.  Hound of the Baskervilles

37.  And many others.  

Subhan, Bustami. 2011.Practical Theories Of English Language Teaching and Learning.Yogyakarta:LPPDMF