Discussion on the Students of IELL Who Prefer to Read Sindhi Literature Over English

Ali Sher Abro

Institute of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Sindh
Introduction sher46333@gmail.com
Methodology
 Aims: To get teaching faculty know about the
weaknesses of students.
 Objectives: To identify why students are more  The researcher has adopted qualitative research
interested in Sindhi literature than English literature. methodology for this study.
 RQ: Why are some students more interested to read  Semi-structured interviews from 20 participants.
Sindhi literature compared to English literature?
 Significance: To lead the students towards career
building who are distracted.
Findings

 Language proficiency= lsnguage barrier

Literature Review  National attitudes=promotion of Sindhi literature
 Closer to social reality of participants=reflectiom of
 Houmanfar, Hayes & Herbst (2005) talk about the
life and events in sindji literature
First language dominancy over the Second.
 Religious and social reasons= firm religious beliefs
 Kazemiem (2015) points out towards the practice of
and social faith
students of having limited study to pass the exams only.
 Lack of proper teacing= needs of selection of
 Muhammad (2013) talks about the lack of
interested syllabus
comprehension of literary texts.
 Al-Mahrooqi (2012) points out the lack of language
proficiency as a reason for not reading English
literature interestingly.
 Hashmas (2007) talks about the lack of participation
owing to Secong language deficiency.