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“Enhancing the Recognition and Retention Ability of Spoken English Expressions through Literary Work Reading.” Studies on English Language & Literature. 37.2(2011): 291-318. This study is to explore how effective it is to recognize and retain the spoken English expressions when a literary text is used for reading. There are lots of spoken expressions in a literary text. Also it is argued that literary texts[esp. prose types] contain 'the context of situation' to be useful for communicative language skills. In this study the controlled group which handled some native speaker-contrived dialogues with the target expressions and the experimental group which handled some authentic literary works with the original expressions[the same target expressions] were compared and analyzed to check out the difference of the outcome for the recognition and retention ability of spoken English expressions under the same conditions. This study that was administered in a few ways[ie., paper tests as a main way and progress observation and a questionnaire as auxiliary ways] showed that the experimental group did better than the controlled group in recognizing and retaining the spoken English expressions. So it is concluded that literary texts should be strongly recommended as a very useful tool to learn very authentic spoken English expressions for communication. (Kongju University)