A inserção do texto literário nas aulas de e/le: diretrizes parao núcleo de línguas estrangeiras da UECE

Abstract

The present study deals with the inclusion of literary texts in the lessons of Spanish as a foreign language within the teaching-learning context of the Núcleo de Línguas Estrangeiras da Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE). For a theoretical basis we have resorted to several authors such as Albaladejo (2004), Cosson (2006) and Mendoza (2004), who tackles the use of literary texts in the language classroom as tools for the formation of competent readers, and to the works of Goodman (1990), Kato (1999), Kleiman (2004), among others, about the reading process in general and about reading strategies. By means of questionnaires we tried to detect students’ and teachers’ motivation and beliefs about the reading of literature, teachers’ difficulties in the inclusion of literary texts in the language classroom and students’ difficulties in the reception of those texts in the target language. Another aim of the investigation was to find out whether the Núcleo had any framework for the inclusion of activities with literary texts. The results show that there is no such a framework. As a pedagogic consequence of our findings and with the help of the theoretical contributions of the authors mentioned above, we have elaborated some guidelines which are intended to serve as a foundation for the building of a framework for the didactic treatment of the literary text at the Núcleo de Línguas. The focus of that model should be the development of reading strategies and the raising of aesthetic pleasure.