Short Stories in ELT Classes is a book which consists of ten widely known short stories in literature. The stories were purposefully chosen as they were suitable to enhance the critical thinking skills (comprehension, analysis, evaluation and synthesis) of students in ELT (English Language Teaching) classes. Although the main notion that the initial goal of ELT is to provide students opportunities to develop language competence, the new trends in second language teaching indicates the significance of integrating literary texts in ELT classes at colleges and universities. Literature, particularly short stories, are authentic texts that enhance students’ language skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening. In this book, each story was designed with –pre, while and –post reading questions and activities. While presenting universal themes such as morality, relationships, compassion, sacrifice, free will, equality, charity, maturity and experience, the stories in Short Stories in ELT Classes aims at providing

educators and teachers materials and texts to increase students’ awareness with class discussions and debates.

The purpose of this book is to present women’s works from different female perspectives bringing new insights into women’s literary worlds. This book composes of several articles that present different analyses and discussions on literary works written by British and American women writers offering a great range of opportunities for conducting academic research by portraying female protagonists’ lives and experiences from a female and feminist lens. The chapters of this book focus on women’s issues regarding their suppression, gender roles, motherhood, sisterhood, feminine identities, re-writing myths, and alternative lifestyles in male-dominated worlds. The women scholars in each part are analyzing different literary texts written in different genres that are written on and about female characters, their worlds, and experiences from a scholarly female standpoint.