With a study on oral language didactics, researchers María del Pilar Núñez Delgado and Antonio Romero López, of the department of Didactics of Language and Literature of the University of Granada, have managed to validate a program to develop the oral discursive competence in a course on Compulsory Secondary Education.
According to the authors of the book, the research work, which has just been published by the University of Granada under the title: “Research on Language Didactics and Curriculum Innovation” intends, among other objectives, “to provide a solid theoretical –and essential—foundation to teach oral language in secondary education classrooms in a systematic and programmed way integrating it into the rest of capacities that make up the discursive competence”.
María del Pilar Núñez Delgado and Antonio Romero López say that “our most ambitious goal maybe the aim that this work draw attention to the need of doing research on oral language teaching, providing reflections, materials and bibliographic references to an area of didactic and linguistic studies in which there is still an appreciable lack of such elements as regards other like, for example, written language.” We know that at present, in the classrooms, teachers hardly do work on oral communication for different and complex reasons, such as the loss of rhetoric tradition in language teaching.
According to the authors of this more than 270-page book, the major difficulties they have found to carry out this work have been, above all: “the lack of a quality scientific bibliography on oral communication, and the insecurity on the program’s validity, which involved –before, during and after its putting into effect–, many hours of joint work with the professor who has executed it to assess, rectify, guide, etc.”
Further information: Prof Antonio Romero López
Dpt. of Language and Literature Didactics. University of Granada
Phone number: 958 243 964 and 958 243 799. E-mail: deceduca@ucartuja.ugr.es
