Resumen

DIVINO GONZALEZ, Esther. Cultural Values in the Development of Reading Comprehension in the Class of Spanish as a Foreign Language. UH [online]. 2015, n.279, pp. 22-33. ISSN 0253-9276.

Short-term courses for non-Spanish speakers are characterized by their multiculturality. They are accessed by people from different regions and different value systems. This hinders the development of the intercultural competence because sometimes in the lessons students are a little unwilling to engage in conversations, work with certain topics or use vocabulary with axiologically negative semantics. Moreover, experience has shown that texts can carry cultural values, which are appreciated or not by students in accordance with their own value systems. Thus it is necessary to explicitly introduce these values through the integrated practice of reading comprehension and speaking. In this way, it will contribute to develop the communicative and intercultural competence as well as value sensitivity.

Palabras clave : comprehension; interculturality; reading; multiculrurality; sensitivity; values.

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