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Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn: una herramienta de la literatura para desarrollar las habilidades del inglés como lengua extranjera y para entender la cultura norteamericana del siglo XIX

2019; Issue: 73 Linguagem: Inglês

10.19052/ap.vol1.iss73.6

2389-8755

Yeison Mauricio Cárdenas Reyes,

American Literature and Humor Studies

<p>This paper discusses and proposes a set of didactic approaches and proposals for teaching English as a foreign language and North American culture through Mark Twain’s <em>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</em> to students from the Bachelor’s Degree in Foreign Languages. The paper addresses three main topics: 1) the didactic and discursive relevance of the text for their respective study in the classroom; 2) the instrumentalization of the book to understand the sociocultural context of the time; and 3) the reflection on how to didactically establish a pedagogical device to analyze two main themes of the book, such as religion and slavery</p>