School teachers trainees and the grammatical competence for their teaching practice

Abstract

This paper is focused on checking, as a main objective, if the students who get into higher education show a basic grammatical competence that qualifies them to face their initial training as future teachers (in this case, future Primary School teachers). It has been checked that the level of this competence is awfully low and that the study variable is not meaningful, since the lack of grammatical competence remains; those assumptions are based on a grammar skill survey. This study is completed with a SWOT matrix that offers areas of action to solve these problems from the comparison between the quantitative results and the ethnographic techniques used (biographical narrative and focal group).