Libros de texto y directrices curriculares para el Español como Lengua Extranjera (ELE) en el sistema educativo francés

Authors

Vanessa AnayaSalto de línea Miquel Llobera

Abstract

Textbooks and curricular guidelines for SFL in the French education systemSalto de línea Salto de línea The teaching of Spanish as a foreign language (henceforth referred to as SFL) in France has traditionally aimed at an ideational kind of knowledge, based on information about the culture and a grammatical description of the language, placing little emphasis on procedural knowledge which facilitates an interactive use of the language and an exploratory attitude with regard to the culture.These were only some of the conclusions we reached after analysing four SFL secondary education textbooks designed by French publishing houses (Anaya, 2001). In an attempt to explain the reasons which encourage this method of language teaching, in this article,we will try to establish the influence curricular approaches have on the design of textbooks which are essentially based on analysing reading passages,for the most part literary texts,on which a dynamic of question/answer is generated for reading comprehension, and which are characterised by a notable absence of coherently organised activities to encourage interaction such as that which occurs in everyday social situations.

Keywords

Spanish as a foreign language, French education system, textbooks, common European framework of reference.