Spanish for Tourism Textbooks: A SWOT Analysis to Determine their Present and Future

Being Spanish one of the most frequent languages of study, this paper aims to analyze, through a SWOT study, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Spanish for tourism textbooks so as to determine their present and future. In doing so, the authors of this manuscript have carried ou...

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Published inRevista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 723 - 753
Main Authors Santamaría Urbieta, Alexandra, Alcalde Peñalver, Elena
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Belo Horizonte Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Faculdade de Letras, Programa de Pos-Graduacao em Estudos Literarios 01.09.2022
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Subjects
Language for special purposes
Language instruction
Language textbooks
Quantitative analysis
Spanish as a second language
Spanish for Specific Purposes
Spanish for Tourism
SWOT
SWOT analysis
textbooks
Tourism
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Summary:Being Spanish one of the most frequent languages of study, this paper aims to analyze, through a SWOT study, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Spanish for tourism textbooks so as to determine their present and future. In doing so, the authors of this manuscript have carried out a qualitative and quantitative study. After an online discussion with four experienced language teachers, we have elaborated an observation checklist that contributes to the field of study and could serve as a tool to analyse language textbooks. We have applied this observation checklist to analyse ten Spanish for tourism textbooks. Results show that textbooks in this field have been adapted to the new realities of language teaching but still fail to include important elements for the correct development of all the skills.
ISSN:1676-0786
1984-6398
DOI:10.1590/1984-6398202221310