Literatura por tareas y gamificación: novela policíaca y geografías culturales

This article explores the possibilities of the literary text as an effective instrument to increase communicative and cultural competence through a proposal of a didactic unit which was built on two didactic perspectives: a task-based approach and gamification proceedings. The target group would be composed of Spanish as a Foreign Language (SFL) students, who belong to the B2 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2001). This didactic unit is based on the crime fiction entitled La playa de los ahogados (2009), which was written originally in Galician language by Domingo Villar (A praia dos afogados). Later on, in 2015, its adaptation to the cinema allowed us to introduce the transmedia dimension (text and audiovisual) into the project narrative. Geographical aspects of literature will be unveiled along this article, all of which would result in an effective instrument to deepen into the diversity of the Hispanic culture. The suspense elements (reached out through different resources such as the creation of real scenarios -Vigo and its surroundings-, a crime, a detective and some suspects), encourage reading through exploratory tasks, whose final aim is to stimulate student´s imagination and creative writing abilities.