Conan Doyle's short stories in the EFL classroom at IFRN
Keywords: literary text, detective story, teaching and learning of English, culture.
The purpose of this research is to develop the high school students’ intercultural, linguistic and communicative competence from IFRN-Campus Natal Zona Norte through the literary text, specifically an unabridged detective story by Conan Doyle. We have come from the point that the literary text can bring out many benefits to the teaching and learning process of English, such as, cultural and linguistic enrichment, personal involvement, development of the students’ interpretative abilities (KRAMSCH, 2015; COLLIE e SLATER, 1987; LAZAR, 2005; DUFF e MALLEY, 2003). Our work has mixed characteristics of a qualitative-quantitative research as well as an action research. Which follows the Kemmis e McTaggart (1988) model, for we had planning, action and reflection phases. Then, we have presented two questionnaires for the participants, high school students from IFRN-Campus Natal Zona Norte, in order to investigate how they understand the target language culture and if it is possible to improve their knowledge of English by the reading of a detective story. Therefore, the result of our research proved the benefits of the literary text in the English learning process.