The Significance of Reading Literary Texts to Algerian EFL Learners

This paper tries to show the value of reading literary texts, particularly, different genres to our EFL learners, in an Algerian context. It exposes the problems, difficulties, and challenges faced by EFL learners based on evidence from the questionnaire and semi-structured interview. Therefore, it analyses and discusses the results obtained from different research instruments. The main objective is to identify and analyze the students' requirements and check whether reading literary texts and tasks will assist them to function effectively in their learning, this paper also sought answers to the stated research questions and hypothesis and reported the findings through different stages of the data collection procedures namely questionnaire and semi-structured interview.