Classic literature through hip-hop as a means to develop critical thinking and the four skills of language learning: A didactic proposal for EFL lessons in 1st Bachillerato

Abstract

Within the current pedagogical framework, in which there is still a certain reluctance to include changes towards different and more innovative methodologies, and in which literature, and particularly classic literature, acquire little relevance in the English as a foreign language lessons, this work proposes to include it in such lessons from an approach that listens to the needs of young people, specifically in the first course of Bachillerato. This approach, that combines individual and cooperative work with the aim of contributing to a final project, uses hip-hop as a channel of transmission of the classics of literature and also has a critical and academic character, since it aims to achieve the development of students' critical thinking while this helps to improve the four skills of language learning.