Lexicon and Spanish Language Teaching: Innovation and Didactic Proposals Based on the Analysis of a Spanish Language Teaching Method

In spite of the important role that lexicon plays in the process of mother tongue learning, lexicon didactics is currently unplanned and barely appreciated in the context of secondary education in Spain. This research, based on the analysis of a Spanish Language and Literature textbook and its methodology, intends to identify the advantages and weaknesses of this method in order to suggest didactic proposals which will help the students learn vocabulary. Taking into account the communicative perspective and the deficiencies found in the textbook that has been analyzed, as well as the existence of traditional activities with a structural approach, we will present the need of change in the way the vocabulary has been taught, one that must be planned and set in context.