The Short Story: An Analysis Perspective for the Teaching of English
Keywords:
ISD, English literature, Short Story genreAbstract
The short story is one of the literary genres that capture the reader’s attention for its brevity and effect. From this perspective, this study has as objective to present and analyze the literary genre as a tool in Teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL). We used, as analysis corpus, “The Cask of Amontillado”, by Edgar Alan Poe and we analyzed it from the socio-discursive interactionism (ISD) a theoretical and methodological framework as presented by Bronckart (1999/2003/2009). After our analyses, we can state that the short story is an outstanding genre to ground the field of TEFL once its structure helps in the understanding of the author’s representations created from the understanding and functioning of the literary text.
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