O ensino de literatura no processo de aprendizagem de Língua Inglesa.

Abstract

For a long time, literature was placed as an important object to foreign language teaching, though in an static teaching model, in which grammar was seen only as a basis for the translation and reading of the foreign literature. Its curriculum recognized the comprehension of the literary texts as a main objective to learning a foreign language, once that the main objective was to enable students to have access to literary texts in the target language. With the changes in the educational curriculum due to the search of an effective teaching, literature lost the acquired importance and was placed as outside of the language teaching, being considered as a minor component to the foreign language teaching. However, literature remains important in this context, once it reflects the culture of people and cannot be dissociated from the language of its community. Besides that, the teaching of this component in English classes becomes important as a facilitator means to the learning of the language, as well as in the formative process of students’ character, since it allows the learner, in her/his literacy process to reflect about the social practices and acting as a critical individual within his/her formation process. Thus, this research has as a main purpose to discuss on the theme “Literature Teaching in the English Language Classes”, in order to comprehend how the actual literature teaching practices happens in high school English Language classes and how they can become more efficient in the collective learning process of students at this level. Therefore, this research has as its theoretical support the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais para o Ensino Médio (2000) and authors such as Donnini (2010), Collie & Slater (1987), Cosson (2011), McKay (2001), Candido (1972) among others. This study consists of a bibliographic research, which intends to review the literature of the area, observing the state of art and discussing about relative questions to theme, presenting some benefits of the literature use in the English language classes at the high school level, more specifically, as well as some methodological strategies which can be applied to literature teaching in the English language classroom.