According to Kramsch (2009), literature aids students in th...
I - Literature may be an interesting resource in English classes, as long as the teacher applies it to discuss topics familiar to the students. II - Coherent with the intercultural perspective for foreign languages teaching, literature may be considered a useful tool for giving students an opportunity to interact with different cultures and linguistic manifestations. III - Symbolic competence, as proposed by Kramsch, has to do with a sort of critical awareness that the literary text may be of great aid to develop. IV - Symbolic competence refers to the ability to decode linguistic signs.