About adaptations of literary texts in the Spanish as a foreign language classroom

The aim of this paper is to unify some criteria on the use of literary texts in the classroom of Spanish as a foreign language, especially in relation to the adaptation of the texts. For that, we develop a teaching proposal that is an adaptation of El burlador de Sevilla, which has been tested in the classroom effectively through specific activities. The conclusion is that working with literary texts can be more productive if we develop a teaching unit based on the text using the task-based approach normally used in the communicative approach. Besides, the sense of the text should be established as the most important learning objective.