Abstract:
A special role in the development of intercultural competence at foreign language classes is played by literature. Through text explorations, the student can acknowledge his own culture and learn to understand and respect the culture of the country whose language he is studying. This way, literature becomes a means of interaction and persuades the student to recognize extra-linguistic references, activate his own cultural references and to connect them with relevant stories and situations that talk about people, customs, behaviors, visions about the surrounding world and others. The exploration of literary texts offers us the possibility to motivate the student to acquire knowledge about a country, its culture, history, helping him get closer to it through the perspective of the text's main characters. Texts offer us the opportunity to enter an unknown world and to get closer, without leaving our current place, to another culture that is often very different. Without further doubts, literature can help us find common elements and to acknowledge that there are more things that bind us than separate us, thus contributing to the intercultural development of the student and at the same time, improving his communicative skills.
