Conceptions of culture teaching in foreign language held by prospective graduates in Primary Education at Melilla

Abstract

This research was carried out over the past five years with sixty-six prospective foreign language teachers (French and English) in primary school. These students were commencing their studies in foreign language teaching in Melilla. The first section of this article aims to examine the theoretical foundations of culture teaching from a plurilingual and intercultural perspective. The subsequent data were collected by means of a questionnaire and the findings were analyzed with the statistical package IBM SPSS 25 using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Lastly, the final results are illustrated through reflections and conclusions by the participants, which were related to the stated objectives as well as the variables contemplated on this research (mother-tongue, age group, foreign language chosen, and academic year).