Abstract

This paper is essentially an illustration to teachers of the English language and Literature of a useful foundation lesson on Imagery. Five groups of various English proficiency levels were taught the foundation lesson or introductory lesson on imagery. Assignments were given to derive data for the evaluation of the level of understanding of the lessons on imagery. An analysis of the data from the assignments shows a high level of understanding of the lessons on imagery by the five groups of students. These five groups of students were taught imagery using Quranic images as literary texts through different pedagogical approaches for their next subsequent lesson. This paper further seeks to preliminarily establish the suitability of the English language translations of the meaning of the Quran as literary texts in the teaching of imagery.