Creative Writing Workshop for the development of Literary Competence in Brazil

Abstract

This article describes a proposal of teaching innovation based on the teaching stream Education for Sustainable Development, as well as the improvement of the Communicative Competence in ESL and both Literary and Intercultural Competences by means of a workshop designed with this purpose. Therefore, the purpose of this article is twofold: on one hand, to demonstrate the possibilities that a Creative Writing and Illustration Workshop offers for the development of the Literary, Intercultural and Communicative Competences in ESL. Additionally, we describe in our theoretical framework how this workshop mentioned follows the Development Education guideline. Our second objective is to narrate how we organized, coordinated and held the Creative Writing and Illustration Workshop at the Universidade Federal do Amazonas in Manaus (Brazil), based in the Task-based methodology, and how we have achieved (1) to promote the creation of connections for the consolidation of bilateral agreements between universities; (2) motivate the scientific collaboration with Brazilian institutions that have a Spanish Department, and (3) use and create tools that may include the Development Education methodology.