TEACHING ENGLISH IN THE EFL CLASSROOM THROUGH LITERATURE WITH JACQUELINE WILSON¿S NOVELS

Abstract

English in the classroom has become a subject plagued with lists of vocabulary and grammatical structures that students have to memorize to fill in the blanks of many exercises. For this reason, teachers are in charge of bringing to the classroom new ways of teaching foreign languages to elementary school students. Literature will be in charge of teaching new ways of learning with material that may seem old, but if it is used through active methodologies, it can be a good tool to transmit English competently in the classroom and thus make autonomous students. That is why this paper shows the reasons why literature should be used in the classroom as a good source to teach English. Along with the research, there is a didactic proposal where the literature is introduced in a sixth-grade classroom with three of Jacquleine Wilson¿s novels.