La importancia de la discusión oral entre pares estudiantiles para el desarrollo de la competencia argumentativa en el currículo de Lenguaje de primaria. Un estudio de caso en un colegio rural de Colombia

Abstract

This hermeneutic study had as its objective the characterisation of the oral interaction between student peers in the development of oral argumentative competence in primary education, using everyday situations as discussion material. For this purpose, we reveal the factors that affect argumentation, which emerge in the students' oral discourse. Likewise, the types of recurrent arguments used by students in their daily life are identified, to lay the foundations for a curricular innovation through pedagogical strategies that strengthen argumentation processes. The results obtained in this study explain the conditions that affect the argumentative capacity of elementary students in a rural school, the relevant factors for the argumentative development in oral interactions between peers, the role played by the teacher in the development of the argumentative process, and identify the types of arguments used by the students. Due to the important role of the school in developing the argumentative capacity of children, it is necessary to encourage argumentative work from the primary school. Therefore, we propose some recommendations based on these findings that could be taken into account by teachers of rural primary schools when employing strategies that strengthen oral argument.