Reading

Reading.

Alan Morley's article on Creative Writing/Reading is very enlightening:

I liked the quote about how EL language teaching lacks a creative spark.

Here's a quote from John McRae (1991) from Literature with a Small "l". Oxford: Macmillan.

"In future years, the absence of imaginative content in language teaching will be considered to have marked a primitive stage of the discipline: the use of purely referential materials limits the learner's involvement with the target language and leads to a one-dimensional learning achievement. Representational materials make an appeal to the learner's imagination..."

Google Books

Google Books allows you to read certain books directly off the Internet. One drawback though is that you can't copy and paste any of the text. The advantage though is that one can get to read books by cutting down on time in searching the old-fashion way as well as being easy on the wallet.