Letramento literário e ensino de língua inglesa através do Idiomas sem Fronteiras

One of the courses for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) of the Brazilian project Language without Borders includes Literature as a specific area, which aims to teach students how to identify and understand literary genres, terminology of this area and to develop critical reading. However, there are not many studies focused on this field. Therefore, this experience report shows how the development of didact material and lesson planning can promote literary literacy through English Language Teaching. Based on the theory of Genre Pedagogy for language teaching, on reading strategies for understanding texts in foreign language and on strategies for promoting literary literacy, the course developed enabled students to read two specific genres, short stories and poems, including the comprehension of their particularities, as rhetorical moves, structural organization and lexicogrammatical aspects. In conclusion, this study might motivate other teachers to use literary texts in their English language classes for exposing possibilities on how to do it.