From Lorca's theater to the new audio-visual text commentary: a didactic proposal with Canva

Abstract

Reading is a topic of interest for researchers in the field of education, who use different methodologies and approaches to look for alternatives that allow the development of reading comprehension in secondary school students. At the same time, the Ministry of Education includes in its curricular programs contents that are intended for the study of poetry, prose and theater of Federico García Lorca. This interest in teaching Lorca's work is due to the place it occupies in universal literature and to the artistic-ideological vision it presents through the characters created. That is why this article gives an account of a study in the process of culmination in the Graduation Seminar in which a didactic sequence is proposed in order to develop in students a linguistic-literary learning   through the use of technological resources, such as smartphones, tablets or computers with the Canva application. The methodology used is guided by a peculiar approach of an explanatory nature, through a diagnostic phase, in which tenth grade students were evaluated (Secondary by Encounter modality). From this, the following results were obtained: they master theoretical aspects related to the dramatic text, but present difficulties when writing and using online digital tools for academic purposes.