New Technologies: ICT and Education in future Early Childhood Education teachers. Characterization from lexical availability

This paper presents the lexical availability of future teachers, first- and fourth-year students of early childhood education. The purpose of this study is to explore the lexical repertoire of the interest areas New Technologies: ICT and Education. Based on a sample of 219 informants and a corpus of 6140 words and 993 terms, the incidence of university education on the available inventory is assessed according to the notional areas studied. The graph mechanism that represents the configuration of the networks activated during the lexical availability survey is discovered through the DispoGrafo program, establishing which types of relationships are the strongest between the vocabulary of both centers of interest and showing, in turn, similarities or differences between the contrasting subgroups (first- and fourth-year students). The main conclusion is the confirmation of different architectures in the mental representation of the lexical availability according to the center of interest and the educational level analyzed.