encouraged to express yourself based on what you read.Writing Tasks: After reading, writing is equally important to your literary competence. Writing tasks are designed in such away that you can see the ties between reading and writing. The cycle is clear: your reading leads to your writing, which calls for more reading. Three types of writing tasks are useful here: essay, paper, and project. For methodological reasons, the essay is designed in a way that makes it a preparation for the paper. Thus, you deal with the paper after you have acquired the competence to deal with the essay. The project is the organization of your course on both English and American literatures. Youll write two essays, one paper, and one test. The first essay involves the two or three poems you read. The second covers your reading of a short story. The paper is an analysis of the play you read. Finally, the test is a second analysis of the paper, this time done in class. Discussing tasks: Not only reading or writing, but also discussing plays an important role in the building of your literary competence. Discussing tasks can contribute to your literary competence for its interactive aspects. The most important one is Pedagogical Triangle. It functions as an instrument, through which you can share knowledge, ideas, and information with your partners about your readings. As it is a triangle it has three moments and involves reading, writing, speaking and listening. With regard to its structure, you first select ideas, information and concepts from a given text, you share them with a partner and, then, present the partners ideas to the whole class.Speaking Tasks: Along with reading, writing, and discussing, speaking is also crucial for your literary competence. Speaking tasks help you present your paper to your partners, in class. You perform two types of speaking tasks. Individual Oral Presentation is performed in front of the whole class. Pair Oral Presentation is done between two students. Listening Tasks. Finally, listening brings valid contributions to your literary competence. Listening tasks are designed for you to evaluate the quality of the oral production of your partners. Youll be involved in two types of listening tasks: individual and pair Evaluation Sheets. The idea behind Evaluation Sheets is that literarily competent student must know how to evaluate critically the literary production of a partner.English Literature: Literary Competence in-action.You have acquired basic concepts of literary theory, and have performed the five types of tasks leading to the literary competence you wish. This phase may be called literary competence-in-preparation. So far so good. Now it is time for you to make your basic knowledge and experience more consistent and advanced. This phase may be called literary competence-in-action. You will do that through the study of English Literature. Here, again, reading, writing, discussing, speaking, and listening tasks are the activities that will make your literary competence concrete and visible.Reading Tasks: Youll go back to Thornley/Roberts (1986) An Outline of English Literature and read it again. In it youll find information for your project on English Literature. Besides,