Abstract
The teaching of literature at school is responsible for the training of readers. In Mozambican schools, where literature takes up a significant amount of teaching time in the Portuguese syllabus (99 of 107 hours in Year 12, for example), teaching practices favour the approach to literary texts in their immanent nature, their constitutive elements and typological classification, taken as ends and not as means of access to the texts, with the aim of training literary reading skills. These findings result from a qualitative and interpretivist ethnographic research, which analyzed didactic-pedagogical practices involving literature in Portuguese classes in Mozambique, with the aim of identifying purposes, theoretical and methodological approaches involved in these practices and skills that are sought to be developed with this teaching method. The fieldwork was conducted between February and June 2018, in two public secondary schools, one in Maputo city center, and the other in the Marracuene district.
Keywords:
literature teaching; reader training; secondary education in Mozambique