Implementing Literature in an EFL Classroom: an Innovative Method to teach English through Literature

Abstract

This Master’s dissertation which follows the Educational Improvement Plan modality structure, attempts to teach English as a Foreign Language specifically through a DU based on literature. It also aims to collaborate in the task of proving the benefits that a literary-based lesson proposal would provide education with. For that purpose, this paper will be divided in different sections. In first place, sections 1 to 4, will be devoted to an introduction, a theoretical background including the most relevant information with regards to the main topics, a context section in which the different agents involved in the process will be described and a final section devoted to the justification and criteria used to select the materials used in the DU. Hereunder, points 5 to 8 will consist of a detailed report of the Didactic Unit and the description of its implementation as well as a suggestion for improvement section and the final conclusions.