Hispanic literatures and teaching Spanish: some considerations and suggestions

Abstract

This essay aims to discuss the importance of teaching literature for human formation and provoke a discussion about the need to incorporate Hispanic literatures into Spanish language classes of basic education. In recent years it is possible to observe the total disappearance of the Literature signature from the reduction in school curricula. In the case of foreign languages, it passed by the same time as literature, which at the time was considered a perfect model for learning foreign languages, disappeared from different classes to give way to new approaches considered to be inappropriate. However, there is currently a growing interest in his return to foreign language classes at the same time when doubts about how to do so are also raised. Based on the ideas of Cosson (2018, 2020), Giardinelli (2010), Nascimento and Trouche (2008), Pennac (1993), Perrone-Moisés (2006) and Todorov (2009) I present a brief overview of the teaching of literature In the documents that guide education in Brazil, there are some considerations based on the difficulties that teachers usually show and present some practical possibilities to demonstrate that the presence of Hispanic literatures in the Spanish class is possible and necessary for education the sensitivity.