Estrategias comunicativas en la enseñanza de ELE : Un estudio cualitativo sobre la relación entre actitudes y práctica acerca de estrategias para la comunicación oral de profesores de ELE en la escuela secundaria de Suecia

Sammanfattning: This study deals with the relationship between attitudes and practice in terms of strategies for oral communication of five teachers of Spanish as a foreign language (ELE) in five Swedish schools. Through surveys and observations, it is proposed to find out which strategies teachers turn to in their oral communication with students and whether they are aware of this. The purpose is to indicate whether there are divergences in the use and conscience between Spanish-speaking teachers and those who have Swedish as their mother tongue. According to the results, having Spanish as a mother tongue is not a criterion for communicating in the target language with students in ELE classes. Likewise, Spanish-speaking teachers are no more aware of their use of the target language than speaking Swedes. Strategies that predominate in oral communication are code switching and nonverbal language. All teachers are aware of the degree to which and in what contexts they turn to code switching, but not of the different ways in how they use it in oral interaction with students. The results also indicate that Spanish-speaking teachers use nonverbal communication as a strategy to support oral communication to a greater degree than Swedish speakers, but it is not proved that they are aware of their use.