Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:562

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX562

Authors:
Rius Dalmau, Maria Immaculada

Abstract:
In this thesis we demonstrate that modern languages in Spain were given a significant boost by the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. In particular, our main aim is to assess the importance of modern language teaching in the context of this institution.From a diachronic perspective we study how modern languages were taught in the different types of Spanish educational centres. By selecting a specific period of time (1876 to 1939) and taking the wider European situation as a reference, we have also conducted a synchronic and comparative study to evaluate the real impact of the ILE on the teaching of modern languages in general and the teaching of French in particular.This thesis is divided into two chapters. In the first chapter we analyse the political and social context, describe the state of foreign language teaching in Europe at that time and present an overview of Spanish state education in this historical context. We also describe the types of educational centres that existed in Spain, discuss the French teaching methods they used and analyse the articles on modern language teaching published by the Revista de Pedagogía (1922-1936). The second chapter is devoted to the history, educational principles, achievements, activities and main representatives of the ILE. We also analyse the articles published on the teaching of modern languages in the Boletín (journal) de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza and describe the experiment embodied by the Instituto-Escuela. We analyse the case of the French teacher, Joan Nogués Aragonés, and present his personal method of teaching.We intended this thesis to be based as far as possible on concrete facts, paying special attention to the important data for achieving our final objective, which is to demonstrate that the modernity of the