The variants of uses of the future made explicit in the Cercanía Joven collection:

analyzes and proposals for didactic adaptation

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze, through the bias of Variationist and Educational Sociolinguistics, the approach of the variable uses of morphological future and periphrastic future by the Cercanía joven didactic collection. For this, we resort to studies about the expression of future in Spanish and, yet, to assumptions of Variationist and Educational Sociolinguistics, like the studies of Labov (1978, 2008), Moreno Fernández (2009), Silva-Corvalán (1989, 2001), Blas Arroyo (2004), Orozco e Thoms (2014), López Morales (2015), Bortoni-Ricardo (2005) and Vieira (2018). Concerning the evaluation of the foreign languages textbooks, we returned to the studies of Tomlinson (2005) and Coracini (1999). Regarding to the methods, we elaborated a analysis guiding questionnaire, based on Pontes and Fernandes (2018) and Pontes and Nobre (2018), considering the following topics: (i) conception of language and teaching approach; (ii) linguistic and extralinguistic conditionings in the use of forms of future; (iii) use of textual genres and the Spanish variations; (iv) variations in the future expression: temporal and modal values. With the analysis, we verified that the aspects related to forms of the future, namely the linguistic and extralinguistic conditioning factors, as well as the commitments arising from the uses and the functions of these forms are not explicitly considered in the collection.