Popular and religious culture in the ELE/2 classroom: a poem by Rafael Montesinos to learn about Spanish Holy Week

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Laura Arroyo Martínez

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Holy Week in Spain is a religious festival that transcends faith to become an essential phenomenon in understanding the popular culture of Spain and, in a very special way, the Andalusian culture. Therefore, the silence regarding this issue in Spanish as a foreign language manuals is surprising. For this reason, a didactic practice to approach Holy Week through the exploitation of the poem “Romancillo de la Esperanza de Triana”, by Rafael Montesinos is presented here.

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Teaching of language and literature

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Popular and religious culture in the ELE/2 classroom: a poem by Rafael Montesinos to learn about Spanish Holy Week. (2024). VERBEIA. Revista De Estudios Filológicos. Journal of English and Spanish Studies, 10(9), 8-22. https://doi.org/10.57087/Verbeia.2024.4700