A Haunted House: constitutive elements for teaching - doi: 10.4025/actascilangcult.v35i3.15649

The English language literature plays an important role in the development of the teachers’education as a whole. Besides being an object of study in the literature classes, this also can be considered a tool for the teaching of the English language, once the literary genre is inside the most diverse spheres of human communication. Thus, this study aims at analyzing the short story A Haunted House, by Virginia Woolf, from the short story didactic model, considering the main teaching elements. We bear our analysis, mainly, on Bronckart’s theory (1999, 2003, 2009) when dealing with text analysis, Cristovão (2007) for the concept of didactic model, Dolz e Schneuwly (2004), for didactic transposition and Gotlib (2003), to highlight the short story characteristics. From the results we can state that the short story is a highly tool for the development of the education of language teachers.