Tendencias en la formación actual de docentes de lengua castellana en américa latina

Abstract

The Basic Education Bachelor program with emphasis in Humanities and Spanish Language of the VUAD must renew its Qualified Register in 2017. The previous phase of the present investigation dedicated to determine the trends of formative research in the Basic Education teacher training programs with an emphasis on Spanish Language, in the country's universities, he intended to contribute to the discernment of the transformation of the current Bachelor's Degree into a new one (in accordance with resolution 5443 of the Ministry of National Education - MEN, issued on June 30, 2010). Among the most outstanding findings of the aforementioned research, it stands out that "the degree programs for the teaching of the Spanish language in Colombia have had changes in the field of research in accordance with the denominations that the universities have had to accept by decree" (Cañón y Viveros, 2013, p.2). The third phase of research called Trends in the Training of Teachers of Spanish Language, surely also contribute to the guidance of this process, as well as with the intention of the university to achieve the accreditation of their programs, since it addresses some of the conditions required by the MEN to renew registration, as well as some of the factors associated with high quality accreditation.

Consequently, this phase of the research assumes the revision of training programs for teachers of Spanish Language in Latin America with the aim of characterizing the academic offer that is generally available in Latin America in this type of programs. This, in addition, will end in a formation of teachers of Castilian language, more in agreement with the needs of the country and with the quality of the Santo Tomás University