Linguistic training in teacher degrees: the notions of ‘communicative competence’, ‘critical reasoning’, and ‘discursive genre’

Abstract

In this text we propose to carry out a set of reflections on communicative competence and critical reasoning (from now on CC&CR) with respect to initial teacher training, within the context of academic writing. These are two aspects considered strategic in teacher training and which have already been the subject of specific measures in some universities and autonomous communities in Spain in relation to accessing such training. We provide a conceptual description of the notions of CC&CR and propose a set of seven key measures based on the fact that these competences must be worked on in a transversal way across all the subjects involved in the teaching degrees, drawing on the fundamental concept of “discursive genre”.