ROBERT FROST’S “THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN”: A MATERIAL FOR DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ READING AND WRITING SKILLS

This study explores the effectiveness of a literary text as material for developing students’ reading and writing skills in an ESL/EFL classroom. It explains reason why teachers should introduce poem language class also shows how they can extract benefits from it. Robert Frost’s “The Death Hired Man” is explored this to demonstrate different techniques teaching be applied tertiary-level develop subskills writing. The include guessing meaning context, answering brief-answer questions, completing sentences, combining transforming changing narrative style, applying punctuation correctly, forming words, utilizing deviations, paragraph, dialogue, critical appreciation. Findings show that – especially well-selected one effectively used skills. Sample activities on two are formulated aforesaid poem. set mainly basis Further studies same may focus oral communication