The Didactics of the Spanish Language in Spanish university Degrees. Approach through their teaching plans

Abstract

The subject Didactics of Language in the Degrees of Primary Education of Spanish universities is analyzed based on the information contained in their teaching plans. Data were obtained from 143 subject guides corresponding to 39 Spanish universities. Various aspects were examined such as the field of knowledge of origin (Specific Didactics, Social and Legal Sciences or Philology-Humanities), its mandatory or optional nature, the number of credits assigned or the name as a subject. Likewise, the study of the situation of the subject: Didactics of Language is carried out in the universities of bilingual autonomous communities with co-official languages (Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Valencian Community, Euskadi, Galicia), where a Chi-square test was applied to check the significance of the results obtained. From this mainly quantitative and descriptive analysis, the general conclusion drawn was that there is great heterogeneity in the presentation of the subjects. All of this may be due to the relatively recent creation of the Departments of Didactics of Language and Literature in the Spanish university since the mid-eighties of the last century.