Entre visillos: A learning proposal for teaching Carmen Martín Gaite’s novel to non-native university students

• Main Authors: Jiménez, Nuria Frías, Cocolina, Carmen Quintana
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Milli Mála 2022
• Subjects: Carmen Martín Gaite; Teaching of Literature; Spanish as a Foreign Language; Contemporary Spanish Literature; Literary Communication; didáctica de la literatura; ELE; literatura contemporánea española; comunicación literaria; bókmenntakennsla; spænska sem annað mál; spænskar samtímabókmenntir; bókmenntasamskipt; Española; Iceland; Islandia
• Online Access: https://ojs.hi.is/millimala/article/view/3516

This article shows a specific teaching proposal to guide the reading and the discussion of the novel Entre visillos (1958) by Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000) with non-native students of the course Spanish Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries at the University of Iceland. The novel is a relevant literary text to work with this type of student for two main reasons. On the onehand, its historical, sociocultural and literary context reflects postcivil war Spanish customs and the trend of social realism. On the other, its discursive characteristics (a mixture of different literary subgenres) and narratological attributes (a combination of points of view, archetypal characters, the symbology of the settings, and the apparent simplicity of language) illustrate the author’s endless interest in communicating effectively with the reader. Our proposal, based on a communicative approach, gives priority to group work and class discussion and its main objective is improving the students’ literary, communicative, and linguistic skills. The seven showcased activities, divided in three sessions, cover the different external and internal categories of the novel and seek active participation from the student. In addition, these work activities can be extrapolated to other readings within the same course and couldalso be transferred to similar educational contexts.Keywords: Carmen Martín Gaite, Teaching of Literature, Spanish as a Foreign Language, Contemporary Spanish Literature, Literary Communication Este artículo presenta una propuesta didáctica específica para guiar la lectura y acercar la novela Entre visillos (1958) de la autora española Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000) a alumnos no nativos en el curso de Literatura española de los siglos XIX y XX en la Universidad de Islandia. La novela es un texto literario relevante para trabajar con este perfil de alumnado, por un lado, por su contexto histórico, sociocultural y literario, reflejo de las costumbres de la posguerra española y de la corriente del ...