In addition to a good psychological and pedagogic workout, the Degree in Child Education demands from the future teacher a good competence in the most basic communication tool: language.
The main goal of this subject is to develop linguistic and communication capacities in a consistent way so that a comprehensive education and the transmission of knowledge to the students are favoured. In addition to listening, three linguistic skills must be improved and developed in the classroom: proficient reading skills (comprehension, rhythm, and elocution), spoken communicative skills (correction, clarity, and fluency) and effective writing skills (coherence, cohesion, and grammaticality).
Future teachers should, therefore, have a good command of a suitable level of Galician language in order to perform their tasks efficiently: by using Galician as the main language in teaching, by playing the role of linguistic models for their students and by correcting the inadequacies an mistakes they can make when talking and writing.
