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Carlos Guevara-Martínez
Contexto: La didáctica contemporánea de la literatura busca superar enfoques centrados en la transmisión de contenidos para favorecer experiencias de lectura interpretativas, dialógicas y críticas. Objetivo: Analizar cómo la investigación reciente configura las mediaciones que favorecen una lectura interpretativa, dialógica, crítica y multimodal, e identificar sus implicaciones para la planificación y evaluación en educación secundaria y formación docente. Método: Se realizó un estudio cualitativo documental e interpretativo. El corpus intencional y no exhaustivo incluyó 27 artículos publicados entre 2017 y 2025. Se efectuó lectura analítica, comparación de estudios y codificación temática de prácticas de mediación, evidencias de aprendizaje y tensiones didácticas. Resultados: Se identificaron cinco núcleos interdependientes: conversación literaria como espacio de co-construcción, andamiaje docente ante la ambigüedad, incorporación de formas digitales y multimodales, lectura como práctica cultural y crítica, y evaluación centrada en trayectorias interpretativas y producción creativa. La selección textual y la formación literaria docente emergieron como condiciones transversales. Conclusiones: La didáctica de la literatura requiere desplazar el énfasis desde la transmisión de información hacia situaciones que permitan sostener, revisar y comunicar interpretaciones fundamentadas. Esto exige mediación docente, pluralidad textual, evaluación formativa y uso pedagógicamente pertinente de la tecnología.
Background: Contemporary literary didactics seeks to move beyond approaches focused on content transmission to foster interpretive, dialogic, and critical reading experiences. Objective: To analyze how recent research shapes the mediations that favor interpretive, dialogic, critical, and multimodal reading, and to identify their implications for planning and assessment in secondary education and teacher training. Method: A qualitative documentary and interpretive study was conducted. The purposive and non-exhaustive corpus included 27 articles published between 2017 and 2025. Analytical reading, cross-study comparison, and thematic coding of mediation practices, evidence of learning, and didactic tensions were performed. Results: Five interdependent core themes were identified: literary conversation as a space for co-construction, teacher scaffolding in the face of ambiguity, the integration of digital and multimodal forms, reading as a cultural and critical practice, and assessment focused on interpretive trajectories and creative production. Textual selection and teacher literary training emerged as cross-cutting conditions. Conclusions: Literary didactics requires shifting the emphasis from information transmission toward situations that allow for sustaining, revising, and communicating grounded interpretations. This demands teacher mediation, textual plurality, formative assessment, and the pedagogically relevant use of technology.

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