Illocutionary potential of verb conjugation in Spanish. A critical and propositional paraphrase of “La enseñanza del verbo en la educación básica” by Hernán Urrutia

Abstract

The present article focuses on the relevance of language as a tool for learning – particularly the illocutionary potential of verb conjugation in Spanish – from a critical review of the text ¨La enseñanza del verbo en la educación basica” by Hernán Urrutia (1976). The importance of this research is related to its disciplinary value, based upon the functional approach for language teaching, and to its methodological value by elaborating a proposal for the teaching process of verb focused on the communicative ability (linguistics, metalinguistics, pragmatics and discourse). The second part of this paper encourages a reactivation of methodological aspects presented by Urrutia in a classroom oriented activity and located in the elementary education scenery by integrating its axis in a literary text which considers as corpus a lullaby by Gabriela Mistral.