<p>This article aims to identify research developments in didactics of language and literature between 2010 and 2015. Its methodology is qualitative, documentary, descriptive, and interpretive. Fifty documents were reviewed that were identified in several databases using the following search category: researches in didactics of language and literature. Data were organized in a database and analyzed and interpreted using the content analysis technique. Spain, Colombia and Venezuela are the countries with the highest production in this field. Didactic strategies for reading, writing, literature, grammar, and orality were analyzed, with an emphasis on textual transpodidactics, paratextual modality, theater, didactic games, image analysis, and audio-visual, gnostic, motor sensory method.</p>