Abstract

SEGOVIA, Jesús Domingo; GALLEGO ORTEGA, José Luis  and  RODRIGUEZ FUENTES, Antonio. Teacher perception regarding communicative skills in student teachers. Perfiles educativos [online]. 2013, vol.35, n.142, pp.54-74. ISSN 0185-2698.

We are currently in a new scenario with regard to the formation and certification of professional skills. We highlight the communicative skills, given their potential as a medium and tool for efficient interactional processes, and for the dynamics of the educational organizations themselves. This paper shows the perception of the teaching staff of the Granada University (Spain) with regard to workload, achievement and the need for communicative skills amongst the student teachers. To gather the information in the study, we gave a questionnaire to 171 teachers; the results of which were analyzed using the statistics package SPSS 14.0. The text provides a descriptive panorama regarding the grade of importance granted to skill, its presence in class, the perceived levels of achievement and the need to include skills in future study plans. Although the results are not very encouraging, they do, however, serve to awaken debate amongst the teaching staff. Advance is shown in two ways: reclaiming and placing emphasis on value, thus recapturing value from implicit education.

Keywords : Professional skills; Communicative skills; Initial teacher training; Studyplans.

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