The purpose of this work is to study children’s
literature and its significant advantages
for learning English as foreign
language, through the design and implementation of a didactic unit centered on
the Little Prince Saint-Exupéry (1943) for students in primary at school.
In this work, it is expected that children not only learn
English as a foreign language, but also they learn it in a meaningful way by
learning the English culture, its beleifs, values and the way they see the
world. In addition, by using literature with children, they will learn real
content in real scenarios, in which students get acquinted with English litearature.
The methodology that follows the teaching of literature is the communicative approach.
Authors such as Curter & Brumfit (1991), Ellis and
Brewster (2014), among others will support this work, in order to understand
the way teachers should use literature for teaching English, taking into
account : the student’s caracteristics, age, student’s linguistic and
cognitive needs, as well as, students likes and dislikes.
Finally, taking into account that this work will
propose a didactic unit for teaching English through literature, its objectives
will be centered on : improving student’s langage skills, creating
critical thinking on students, fostering creative skills, among others.
