DIDAKTICKÉ NÁVRHY PRE ROZVÍJANIE GRAMATICKEJ KOMPETENCIE SLOVENSKÝCH UČIACICH SA PROSTREDNÍCTVOM PRÁCE S LITERATÚROU NA HODINÁCH FLE.

The paper focuses on the problem of teaching foreign language grammar using literature in secondary schools. Our aim is to propose and provide teachers of French as a foreign language with effective and practical didactic recommendations for teaching the past tense in French through a literary text. In selecting a particular text and in conceiving didactic recommendations, we take into account the potential of working with a literary text to contribute to the self-development of the learner, to the development of his/her reading and language skills, to the development of his/her critical thinking and other important aspects of his/her personality. The chosen text is an authentic literary text -- the Quebec short story Le petit bonhomme de graisse, which in terms of content and scope meets the criteria for selecting a text for the chosen didactic purposes. The proposed activities for working with the text are designed for learners with reference language level B1 according to the CEFR, where the learners encounter the chosen grammatical phenomenon and the problem of its application in communicative practice. From a linguodidactic point of view, the chosen text corresponds to this language level and does not need to be didacticised. The partial aim of this paper is to offer FLE teachers a tool for the development of grammatical competence and its application to learners' communicative practice. In proposing activities related to authentic literary text, we take into account Slovak learners in Slovak schools, but nevertheless these proposals are applicable in the educational system of other countries where French is taught as a foreign language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]