LUCIAN BLAGA, THE MAN IN A DIALOGUE WITH THE HISTORY: AN INTERCULTURAL PEDAGOGY CASE STUDY

Abstract

The use of literary texts or literary criticism in the teaching of the Romanian language as a foreign language during the COVID-19 pandemic is not a recurring practice if we follow the theme of the studies published in recent years in our field of RLS. However, although literature (poetry, short/long prose) and literary criticism (short literary essays) seem to occupy a smaller space in the teaching process of RLS, we have a feeling that this method will start to gain more and more ground, since literature will provide a renewed approach to language, designed to help the students develop their communication and interpretation skills. The authors of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) encourage language teachers to appeal to the aesthetic and poetic quality of language in order to awaken in language students a taste for beauty, for imagination, for sensitivity, for culture, for the pleasure of reading, etc. In this paper, we present a critical sample used in RLS classes with the aim of developing an exercise in intercultural pedagogy and comparative approach, starting from the literary biography of Lucian Blaga.