The Use of Literature in the English as a Foreign Language Classroom in Secondary Education: Animal Farm

Treball Final de Màster Universitari en Professor/a d'Educació Secundària Obligatòria i Batxillerat, Formació Professional i Ensenyaments d'Idiomes. Codi SAP419. Curs: 2019/2020The purpose of this research article is to shed light on whether the use of literature in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom may result in an increased involvement of the learners in the teaching-learning process. In order to pursue that objective, a Didactic Unit (DU) has been planned and implemented in a third-year ESO course in Benicàssim. This DU takes George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm as the basis on which the entire teaching-learning process will be sustained. Additionally, the design of all the activities is aimed to fit under the umbrella of the three pedagogical models developed by Carter and Long: the cultural, the personal growth and the language model. As a consequence, a detailed description of the DU, its actual implementation, its results and the students’ responses have been collected to ascertain to what extent the initial objective has been achieved