Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Literary Tool to Develop Skills in English as a Foreign Language and to Understand North American Culture during the Nineteenth-Century

This paper discusses and proposes a set of didactic approaches and proposals for teaching English as a foreign language and North American culture through Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to students from the Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages. The paper addresses three main topics: 1) the didactic and discursive relevance of the text for their respective study in the classroom; 2) the instrumentalization of the book to understand the sociocultural context of the time; and 3) the reflection on how to didactically establish a pedagogical device to analyze two main themes of the book, such as religion and slavery.