Didactic strategies around reading used in initial teacher training in Spain

Abstract

Didactic strategies around reading used in initial teacher training in Spain can have an impact on the teaching practices of future teachers in the Primary Education classrooms. This article presents a qualitative study in which 73 university professors have participated on the teaching strategies they follow when teaching subjects related to the teaching of reading and literature in the Primary Education Degree in the Spanish university. The analysis of the data has allowed identifying numerous teaching practices and organize them around three main categories: didactic strategies directed to the development of academic abilities, directed to know teaching abilities and directed to the development of reading practices in the students. It is possible to conclude that teachers employ a great diversity of methods and activities, which are complementary, with a strong innovative and practical component, which serve a dual purpose: to favour an affective approach of teaching students towards reading and literature and provide to this one of the theoretical-practical tools that help him to develop his work of reading mediation successfully.