Fostering Language Skills Development through Fairy Tales: A Literature Study

In EFL, developing language skills is not merely concern on linguistics elements only. Some recent studies revealed that in good developing language skills needs to integrate another field such as literature. In this study, the researcher involved fairy tales as a medium in fostering language skills development. This fostering language skills is emphasized for early ages pupils. Fairy tales is used because it is considered suitable for all ages, besides, it also provides rich sources of language development, furthermore it has authentic model of language use. This study aims at proposing the use of fairy tales in developing language skills e.g.: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Later on, this study is going to discuss some problems: why is language crucial to early age children's development and how the way fairy tales fostering language skills development. In conducting this study, the researcher used library research method since its data is acquired from any library resources such as books, journals, articles, and any other resources which is relevant with. This study is expected to help language instructor to foster students' language skills development through literature, especially fairy tales.