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The purpose of this paper is to address the approaches and models of using literature as a language teaching tool and to suggest English teachers practical ideasabout how to integrate the experience of writing poetry as a tool of teachingEnglish especially to young learners and beginners. Poetry writing gives studentsan opportunity to transform their feelings into communicative force. As a literarygenre poetry is not different from any other linguistic performance. It is the productive use of linguistic structures in order to achieve communication. In recentyears language teaching methodology has been heavily influenced by theCommunicative Approach. This paper also focuses on the possibilities of poetrywriting in an interactive way through task-based learning activities in languageclasses. The aim of these activities is to maximise learners’ understanding of poetry by first allowing them to try writing their own poetry in an interactive task-basedlanguage learning environment and secondly to provide teachers opportunities touse poetry as a language teaching device by adapting or adopting these activities.Issues related to classroom implications are given at the end of the study

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