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No. 17 (2018)
The teaching of history

SPECIAL SECTION

The contribution of linguistics to history education

https://doi.org/10.19053/20275137.n17.2018.7449

Published 2018-08-14

  • Rodrigo Fernando Henríquez
    • ,
  • Miguel Fuentes Cortés

Rodrigo Fernando Henríquez
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Miguel Fuentes Cortés
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

The objective of this article is to review the main contributions of linguistics to the teaching of history and to evaluate its contributions to the ield. More speciically, the themes of historical writing and interactions in the history class will be dealt with. At present, knowledge systems and disciplines are more open to inter- and trans-disciplinary dialog. In this context, linguistics, a science that specializes in language, has permitted the study of how scientiic communities read and write in order to build their knowledge. In the case of history teaching in schools, the contributions of linguistics are varied; among them, the explicit ways in which history is taught and learned through the mediation of language. For this, different references are presented, such as the school of Sydney, Australia; Caroline Cofin, in the United Kingdom; Mary Schleppegrell, in the United Stated, and Teresa Oteíza, Mariana Achugar and the Urdimbre group in Latin America. In reviewing some works by these authors, we provide a panoramic view of some of the focuses that linguistic research in the teaching of history has had in the west to date. It is expected that this article will motivate interdisciplinarity and creativity to employ the language in our history classes.

Keywords

history teaching;, linguistics;, historical writing;, classroom interaction;

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Author Biography

Rodrigo Fernando Henríquez

Doctor en Historia, profesor asociado Instituto de Historia-Facultad de Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Líneas de investigación: Alfabetización histórica, Historia de la escritura histórica, Historia del Estado.

Miguel Fuentes Cortés

Profesor de Historia y Geografía, Magíster en Estudios latinoamericanos de la Universidad de La Serena, y Doctor (c) en Lingüística de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

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