Conceptions and Knowledge of Teachers at Secondary Education on the Didactics of Oral Comprehension

The general objective of this research, carried out in Granada (Spain), consist in analyzing the conceptions and knowledge of Spanish Language and Literature teachers at secondary education level on oral comprehension teaching to try to find the explanation to the fact that oral skills are been studied much less than written ones and, in future work, to establish its implications for the educational action. The empirical research presented is a cases study of a qualitative nature in which the clinical interview is used as a data collection instrument, data will be organized in coded meta-categories for its subsequent analysis. This research consists of two main blocks: the first one, the theoretical foundation to give the essential scientific strength to work and the second one, the research. The first block focuses on three areas: oral comprehension from a theoretical point of view, the oral language in the curriculum framework and concepts of conceptions and implicit theories. In the second block, the method and the research are defined and the main results of the discourse of the interviewees are analysed and discussed and finally the general conclusions are presented. It concludes with acknowledgments and references section.