Two Pedagogical Projects: Extensive Reading and Creative Writing in the Spanish as a Foreign Language

Abstract

By reporting on two teaching experiences in the context of the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, this study reviews the role of extensive reading and ways to implement it in the foreign language classroom. One of the projects -the practice of extensive reading through free reading time in the classroom- serves as the basis for the second, ´Handcrafted books', in which the student begins as a reader and then becomes an author. The present work is descriptive in nature and it introduces the theoretical framework that supports each project, guidelines for its implementation, and participant reactions.

Dos proyectos pedagógicos: lectura extensiva y escritura creativa en el aula de español como lengua extranjera