Teaching of language and new literacies; between tradition and innovation

Abstract

Language teaching in secondary school, as conceived during the twentieth century, has changed with emergence of new information and communication technologies applied to education. The new literacies have caused the increasingly need of teaching secondary school students how to improve their language as social practices from the multi-literacy perspective. This will allow them to access, discriminate, modify and transmit information to meet a better profile of graduation at this education level. In this sense, it’s necessary to execute innovation actions on the curriculum of the Spanish subject at this level. The aim is for professors to merge in their teaching a closer conception of those of the student’s contexts, to extend the scopes of that towards a multimodal teaching. This does not abandoning the normative aspects of the language and openly considers the new ways and pillars to communicate, which use in the classroom, defines and determines teaching quality at secondary schools in the current time.