Linguistics for everyone, also for Primary school teachers

Abstract

Studies on human language have an obvious incidence on the day-to-day of many professionals, although perhaps during their training they are fully aware of this. For this reason, this paper presents a proposal to illustrate to university students how these theoretical formulations have conditioned the progress of certain social needs. This proposal is focused on a specific professional field, that of primary education teachers and language teaching, although it can be extrapolated to other professional contexts by modifying some of its elements. At the same time, this proposal is generated with the aim of making a significant contribution to learning based on critical reflection and the development of basic competences, such as communicative competence or autonomy in learning, which will lead students to search for, select and synthesise information, and to interrelate knowledge. Finally, the implementation of the proposal showed the difficulties that the development of these competences entails for students and therefore certain adaptations are also proposed.