Who is afraid of orality? Nobody

Oral teaching/learning from literary text: examples from Sermon of Saint Anthony to the Fish and Frei Luís de Sousa

Abstract

This article reflects on the way(s) in which oral teaching/learning can be promoted based on literary texts, from a perspective of approximation or complementarity. It is common practice to only consider the development of written production competence, after reading and analyzing literary texts. In this article, we consider that orality and literary text, despite the specificities that characterize them and which seem to serve as an irremediable dichotomy in the classroom context, can be worked on in an enriching interconnection, resulting in the consolidation of content and greater capacity for mobilization of knowledge between orality, reading, writing, literary education and grammar, which favors an integrated view of the language and a more competent linguistic and communicative performance on the part of students. To validate this didactic position, two mandatory reading works were chosen in the 11th year Portuguese subject: Sermão de Santo António aos Peixes and Frei Luís de Sousa.