As variedades linguísticas hispano-americanas no livro didático formación en español: lengua y cultura

Abstract

In this research, we deal with the specific hispanic-american language varieties in the Spanish-language coursebook Formación en Español: Lengua y Cultura, selected by the PNLD 2014. Our background are the studies on linguistic variation and teaching by the following authors: Labov (2003), Moreno Fernández (2010), Coan and Bridges (2013), Bridges (2014), Kraviski (2007), Rodrigues (2005), Santos (2002, 2007) and Bugel (1999). Regarding the results obtained, we could observe that the Spanish coursebook at hand seeks, even in a limited and incipient way, to make the student aware of the occurrence of variation in the lexical and phonetic-phonological levels, despite the predominance of a structuralist approach in most of the contents dealt with. There is also a tendency to consider the Hispanic- American varieties as a homogeneous group, presenting them as a single block, "Spanish of America".