This research group is made up of researchers from different fields of Language and Literature Didactics (PDIs from the UCA, professionals working in educational centres at different educational levels, professionals from the Andalusian Regional Government and doctoral students) and includes both experts in Mother Tongue and Foreign Language Didactics (English, French, Japanese and Italian).
Its activities are focused on the study of aspects related to the teaching and learning processes of the Mother Tongue, the foreign language, literature and LLIJ in Spanish, English, French, Japanese and Italian.
Among the most relevant research and transfer activities to be developed by the members of the Group are:
- Articles in national and international journals and participation in national and international conferences.
- Organization of Meetings, Seminars, Conferences, etc.
- Direction of doctoral theses, TFMs and TFGs related to our lines of research.
- Collaboration with the Writing Centre (CdE) of the University of Cadiz.
- Collaboration with entities for the design and advice on didactic material for all educational levels.
- Creation of a scientific blog for the promotion of reading and Children´s Literature in L1 and L2.
- Advice to educational centers on plurilingualism and teaching innovation in DLL.
- Creation of an experimental portal for the dissemination and transfer of activities in the fields of Language Teaching in Nursery, Primary, Secondary and EOI Education. To create a space in which to show to the outside world the potential and attractiveness of the disciplines related to language teaching, as well as that of our students through the research results of their TFMs and TFGs.
- Research on Gender and Equality Studies from the field of Language and Literature.
- To promote internationalization with the creation of tools and strategies that favour the acquisition of linguistic competence by students participating in mobility programmes.
BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM
DIDACTICS OF THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND ITS LITERATURE
TEACHING OF MOTHER TONGUE AND LITERATURE
GENDER STUDIES LINKED TO LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION IN LINGUISTIC AND LITERARY EDUCATION
INTERNATIONALIZATION AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTS' LITERATURE: HISTORY AND CRITICISM
CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG ADULTS' LITERATURE: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS
CHILDREN'S AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: ORAL TRADITION
The methodology employed will be eminently qualitative, giving priority to ethnographic designs, narrative designs, action-research designs, phenomenological designs and grounded theory.
Many of our investigations will also opt for mixed designs (we will triangulate quantitative and qualitative data).
Depending on each research, we will use specific methodologies from the Language and Literature Didactics Area.
Techniques: Systematic review, bibliographical analysis, observation, interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, case studies.