Modelos de mundo socioculturales en la historia de la literatura española. Automatización y descodificación para alumnos de ELE

Abstract

Abstract: The approach to a language through its literature offers great teaching possibilities for students learning foreign languages, but it is necessary to help them build the cultural component to guarantee the understanding of texts. In order to do this we will start from the concept world views developed by the Semiotic School of Tartu-Moscow in the seventies. To sum up, by world views we understand the cultural perception of the world we belong to. This concept reaches an interesting scope in Literature as it offers information about cultural and ideological components that are part of any fictional transformation. In this article we will analyze different Spanish literary texts from this point of view, suggesting activities for direct classroom application. We will finish with a proposal based on Teaching through Tasks methodology, dealing with physical descriptions from the point of view of the canon of beauty that has changed throughout history.

Keywords: Spanish as a Foreign Language, world views, Semiotics, Didactics, Literature, fictional transformation, canon of beauty.