LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Educational meaning and relevance.

In the mandatory high school education, the acquirement of communication skills, understanding and expression, should be understood as the motor for individual learning, for gaining knowledge and for the autonomy in the future learning process and the integral development of the person.

What belongs to the subject of Language and Literature and to Foreign Languages, is preferably, the development of the four linguistic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, including a functional approach to the conscious and reflective use of the language, as well as the knowledge of literature as an artistic and cultural phenomenon that needs to be respected and preserved.

All the faculty, from any area and level, should promote linguistic communication as an essential mean to assure an optimal learning, to learn how to think the language as a family and social phenomenon and as a privileged way to build relationships based on respect and cooperation, essential for their development as adults.

Therefore, to communicate, in this period, becomes essential in order to be a young man or woman that prepares for the adult life. Someone that thinks about defining his/her own autonomy with the support of the family and learns with others how to live within a society that should be based on respect and the coexistence of a diverse group of people with common goals of progress. All of this should be achieved by making use of language in a non discriminatory and non sexist way, promoting a real and effective equality between genders.