Ready Player One (2011): A proposal for using dystopian fiction in the EFL classroom

Literature is a didactic tool that has been neglected in recent years by other types of teaching materials. Therefore, this paper aims to show the benefits the use of literature in the EFL classroom can have. For this purpose, contemporary literature has been selected in order to increase motivation...

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Autor: Pérez Iglesias, Lucía
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositorio:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/66753
Acceso en línea:https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/66753
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Literature
EFL teaching
Dystopian fiction
Young Adult literature
Literatura
Enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera
Lliteratura distópica
Literatura juvenil
5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
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Sumario:Literature is a didactic tool that has been neglected in recent years by other types of teaching materials. Therefore, this paper aims to show the benefits the use of literature in the EFL classroom can have. For this purpose, contemporary literature has been selected in order to increase motivation and encourage reading habits among students. Accordingly, a didactic proposal has been designed to be developed in a complete school year based on Ready Player One (2011), a book of young adult and dystopian fiction. With the development of several activities based on its reading, it is intended that students improve their proficiency in the foreign language while reflecting and interacting with the text itself as it deals with issues that may affect students directly in their daily life.