Intervención en CL para ELE mediante textos literarios. La poesía de Antonio Hernández aplicada al aula de nivel avanzado = Intervention in reading comprehension for Spanish as a foreign language through literary texts. The poetry of Antonio Hernández applied to the advanced level classroom

Abstract

This article seeks to enhance reading comprehension from the area of Spanish as a foreign language, as well as to raise awareness of the cultural richness of literature written in the Spanish language. It aims to delve into the classroom applicability of literary texts and their didactic exploitation. In order to achieve this, we have selected several poems by Antonio Hernández, whose quality and magnitude represent a benchmark in contemporary Spanish poetry. The objectives are to expand the vocabulary of students of Spanish as a foreign language, to approach poetry in the advanced level Spanish classroom through different means which help us meet the challenge and improve the students’ skills in the field of reading comprehension, by using poetic texts. We will work with Antonio Hernández in order to exemplify the educational possibilities of poetry in the classroom of Spanish as a foreign language. Target key competencies in this paper are linguistic competence and autonomy of learning.