Teaching through projects in the English literature classes

Abstract

The following work aims at presenting some teaching and evaluation practices of literatures in English in the Higher Education scenario. Our purpose is to describe the conception and creation of projects, emphasizing the way they work, the reflections about their application. Also, we will make a proposal that they serve as an example to be adapted and repeated in other contexts, as well as some notes on how they meet the expectations created by the extension curricularization. First, we are going to include a brief synthesis of the studies about teaching literatures in English and the importance of working with projects. After that, we are going to introduce the projects developed within three courses of literature in English: Poetry Sarau, LiteraryCast: UFMS and Literary Talks: papos sobre literatura. The former happens in person, the other two generate products like podcasts and lives, which are shared in public and free channels. We conclude that, once we are talking about projects that permit sharing their contents, they deal with a lot of competences and languages, they permit the creative use of language, literature and culture, building meaningful and fundamental life experiences in the formation of future teachers, they have been successful in evading traditional formats of teaching, which use literature only as a personal fruition object, and are good options of extension activities.