REFLEXÕES SOBRE O USO DA LITERATURA NO ENSINO E APRNDIZAGEM DE INGLÊS: UMA PRÁTICA PEDAGÓGICA EM TURMAS DE 3ª SÉRIE DO ENSINO MÉDIO

This Course Conclusion work describes experiences of a pedagogical practice carried out withstudents of basic education, at Escola Estadual de Educação Básica Costa Rêgo, in the year2015. These activities are related to Literature, held in English classes and its main focus wasto work the four necessary skills in English language learning, for this purpose, the novel ofOscar Wild: The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as the main tool. The realization of theseactivities generated positive results by proposing different teaching and learning strategies withthe use of narratives in English Literature, thus spreading a little more of English culturethrough their literature, the purpose of this work was to exercise listening, speaking, readingand writing that are essential practices in learning English, with the help of Literature. Otherresults are represented in the data analysis, which also have two survey questionnaires, onecarried out in order to find out the student's relationship with English Literature, the other onecarried out in order to evaluate the availability of the current teachers of English in usingEnglish Literature in English classes. In our research as a positive point, we detected that 86%of current English teachers use English Literature in their classes, however, and as a negativepoint, we detected that only 23% of students in High School have a habit of reading, while only20% of students of primary education cultivate the habit of reading; in its theoretical foundationwe have authors such as Santos (2001), Anthony Burguess (2008), Luiz Antônio Marcuschi(2008), Margarete Corchs (2006), Renata Colasante (2009); among others.