Flash Fiction Story, an Authentic Text for Literacy Development in Spanish as a Foreign Language

Summary The present study is based on flash fiction texts as a tool for literacy. Literacy has been highlighted one of the main ideas in new Educational Standard Latvia (in force since September 2020). This fact, followed by Solvita Berra’s recent research original foreign language teaching, leads to exploration stories (sp. microrrelatos ) an authentic text and perfect promoting literacy Spanish (ELE) classroom, it blends perfectly with variety creative writing exercises. narrative genre that had great impact academic field decades. introduction ELE classroom so far proposed several master’s dissertations, but its at scientific level still very scarce. benefits this literary didactics have treated doctoral thesis Belén Mateos Blanco (University Valladolid) later published manual “The didactic teaching ELE”, few others. However, are good socio-cultural references serve both, different literary, linguistic sociocultural aspects, well promotion In addition, they represent Spanish, written authors from almost all Spanish-speaking countries. empirical part article presents two Units developed use A1–A2 B1 acquisition level. These units form 20-unit material created result thesis. Here proposal proved classwork University Liepaja students 1st 2nd year studies.