Academic lettrism throughout subjects in Mexican state-owned public universities

Abstract

This study depicts the formal training of Spanish linguistic skills offered by the 42 state-owned public universities of Mexico, through transversal and descriptive research. Among other results, we find that 55.7% of different subjects’ educational programs include some type of language course. 59% of engineering careers provide formal schooling in written language; the same interest is expressed by arts and humanities, 59.3%. On another level, 84% of the courses in question include generic teaching of the language, and only 16% express a direct link with academic lettrism.