Dear friends

Hope everybody is fine and ready to return to our enjoyments here at UTFPR. Also hoping you are reading academic texts and planning to improve your own researches this year. 

Recently I have sent you an article about the use of literary texts for teaching English: “A imbricada relação entre língua e literatura: o texto literário na sala de aula de língua estrangeira”… I suppose you have already read it…

Very well! As you should know, that subject is kind of controversial, since there are people who agree on the issue and others who do not. By verifying the tone in which the authors wrote the text, one may suppose that they really defend the use of those texts for teaching English.

One of the questions I would ask is exactly this: Would you defend that practice or rebel against it? Why or why not? 

Other questions would be:

- This text explores the activity of teachers during the process of teaching English through literary texts, and tries to grasp something about what are the students’ responses about it. What are the results of their research?

- How would you explain Ferradas’s words on page 269?

- What are the arguments in favor of teaching language through literature? In other words, according to the authors, what are the positive points about literature and teaching?

- If you were supposed to write an article about the intricate relation between literature and English teaching, what would you write about? Explain in details.

We are looking forward to hearing from you… choose one or two of these questions to discuss argumentatively. By the way, why not to formulate other questions to your classmates?

(You can answer in Portuguese or in English)

May the world go well!!

Take care!!