Criticism of the Manual of Spanish Literature Fernando Lázaro Carreter and Vicente Tusón Case Study: adaptation of the text to the teaching of this discipline aimed at Spanish-speaking university students in Iran

Salas, Beatriz

Criticism of the Manual of Spanish Literature Fernando Lázaro Carreter and Vicente Tusón Case Study: adaptation of the text to the teaching of this discipline aimed at Spanish-speaking university students in Iran

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Beatriz Salas

Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University of Tehran, North Branch, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Spanish, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The Manual of Carreter and Tusón for the teaching of Spanish Literature has been one of the most used in the high school classrooms since its publication in Spain, in 1960. Due to the high quality of its content and the correct didactic approach used by the authors, has transcended to the university centers in Spain and Latin America.
This work has even crossed the borders of the language, and is use for more than twenty years in universities in Iran. The present work is a study of its content. Shows the favorable points it brings, both for the Literature teacher as for the Iranian students of Spanish language. Also shows the elements of change or adaptation that the professor has managed to facilitate the learning of the points of Spanish literature, specified in the general program of this career, and approved by the Ministry of Higher Education for the Spanish Language faculties of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
For this, the work is analyzed and evaluation criteria are presented that have been used and have emerged through the years of experience in the classrooms of the Azad Islamic University of Tehran, North section, either by the teacher or suggestions that have been made raised the same students.

Keywords

Teaching Spanish literature

Latin American literature

teaching Spanish literature for foreigners

prose

poetry

biographies

History of Spanish literature