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Revista iberoamericana de educación superior
On-line version ISSN 2007-2872
Abstract
SANCHEZ-HERNANDEZ, Samuel. Academic lettrism throughout subjects in Mexican state-owned public universities. Rev. iberoam. educ. super [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.19, pp.131-151. ISSN 2007-2872.
This study depicts the formal training of Spanish linguistic skills offered by the 42 state-owned public universities of Mexico, through transversal and descriptive research. Among other results, we find that 55.7% of different subjects’ educational programs include some type of language course. 59% of engineering careers provide formal schooling in written language; the same interest is expressed by arts and humanities, 59.3%. On another level, 84% of the courses in question include generic teaching of the language, and only 16% express a direct link with academic lettrism.
Keywords : language teaching; public universities; literacy; state of the art; Mexico.